Everyone has that part of the family who they know very little about, right? Well, can you imagine going and trying to find out about them? In "Shy People" Diana does just that.
She is a big named journalist on a big named magazine, with a troubled daughter. She decides to do an interest piece on the section of her relatives that she knows very little about. With her daughter, they travel to backwater Louisiana to locate her distant cousins. Once out there though they discover that things are very different from the big city. The culture is much simpler, and believes are very high in superstition.
She meets Ruth, her uncle's second wife, and her four sons. One of which has been declared as dead among the family and another locked up in a shed as punishment. These folk don't have electricity, or what seems like an education pass elementary school (if even that).
Things begin to go wrong as Diana and her daughter attempt to throw their lifestyle at them. The troubles of the past come out.
I enjoyed it even though I really couldn't stand the daughter at all. She was constantly complaining and made some really dumb choices that had me wanting to throw something at her and yell, "THINK WOMAN!" I really loved Hershey's character though! She was so in charge and may not have been book smart, but she was smarter in her own ways.
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