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The difficult history of one girl’s community unfolds in a world inspired by the humid swamps and bayous near New Orleans and the dusty sawmills of LaSalle Parish.
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Harold Goldberg, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
An 1850s redwood sawmill exists at Mountain Meadow.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 19 May 2025
The sawmill the twins convert into their juke joint becomes a bloody trap from which there is no escape, much like the system they are born into and seek to transcend.
—Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 2 May 2025
The twins, who’ve made some cash working in Chicago for Al Capone, buy an old sawmill from a condescending white man named Hogwood (David Maldonado), who promises the KKK is no longer around these parts, so they won’t be bothered.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 19 Apr. 2025
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Harold Goldberg, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
An 1850s redwood sawmill exists at Mountain Meadow.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 19 May 2025
The sawmill the twins convert into their juke joint becomes a bloody trap from which there is no escape, much like the system they are born into and seek to transcend.
—Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 2 May 2025
The twins, who’ve made some cash working in Chicago for Al Capone, buy an old sawmill from a condescending white man named Hogwood (David Maldonado), who promises the KKK is no longer around these parts, so they won’t be bothered.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 19 Apr. 2025
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“Sawmill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sawmill. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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sawmill
noun
saw·mill
-ˌmil 
: a mill or machine for sawing logs
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