While looking for advice, he encounters some local gang members who convince him to join and benefit from their solidarity and mutual trust. Porter rejects this idea, becoming bent on preserving the business, a car repair shop called Porter’s. Suffering from chronic depression, eventually, she decides to sell their house in Virginia and move in with extended family in Ohio. Having lost her life partner and the family’s primary breadwinner, Porter’s mother struggles to take care of her twelve-year-old son. The novel begins shortly after Porter’s father dies. The novel received multiple awards for its exploration of the Deep South and the region’s enduring legacies of domestic abuse, systemic racism and sexism, and bullying. Porter eventually learns more constructive ways to grapple with difficulty and guilt. Porter makes his own mistakes along the way: he joins a gang and commits crimes to reach his goals. In order to do so, he tries to find out why some members of the community seem to hate his family. Set in Stony Gap, Virginia in the summer and fall of 1972, it follows Red Porter who struggles to keep his family’s store from closing. Seeing Red is a historical fiction novel by Kathryn Erskine.
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