According to Deadline, 'Desperation Road', a novel by Michael Farris Smith, is set in Mississippi and centres on a single incident that sends the entire community hurtling toward conflict as a result of resentment, wrath, and regret. In her character as "Maben," Fitzgerald portrays a single mother with a 7-year-old kid who returns to the village where sad events from her past collide with the people she both loved and despised.
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