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Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in
sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and
uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier.
After the violent death of her father, Margo takes to the river in
search of her mother with only a biography of Annie Oakley to her
name. Her river odyssey through rural Michigan becomes a defining
journey, one that leads her beyond self-preservation and to
deciding what price she is willing to pay for her choices.
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Q Road (Paperback)
Bonnie Jo Campbell
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Greenland Township, Michigan: On the same acres where farmers once displaced Potawatomi Indians, suburban developers now supplant farmers and prefab homes spring up in last year's cornfields. All along Q Road -- or "Queer Road," as the locals call it -- the old, rural life collides weirdly with the new. With a cast of lovingly rendered eccentrics and a powerful sense of place, Q Road is a lively tale of nature and human desire that alters the landscape of contemporary fiction.
Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir,
Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural
America, and her working-class protagonists can be at once
vulnerable, wise, cruel, and funny. The strong but flawed women of
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters must negotiate a sexually charged
atmosphere as they love, honor, and betray one another against the
backdrop of all the men in their world. Such richly fraught
mother-daughter relationships can be lifelines, anchors, or they
can sink a woman like a stone. In "My Dog Roscoe," a new bride
becomes obsessed with the notion that her dead ex-boyfriend has
returned to her in the form of a mongrel. In "Blood Work, 1999," a
phlebotomist's desire to give away everything to the needy awakens
her own sensuality. In "Home to Die," an abused woman takes revenge
on her bedridden husband. In these fearless and darkly funny tales
about women and those they love, Campbell's spirited American voice
is at its most powerful.
American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural
characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix
cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to
cook up methamphetamine, but they have not figured out how to
prosper in the twenty-first century. Through the complex inner
lives of working-class characters, Bonnie Jo Campbell illustrates
the desperation of post-industrial America, where wildlife, jobs,
and whole ways of life go extinct and the people have no choice but
to live off what is left behind.
A girl with a gun fights for survival in the American wilderness,
in a tale that will enthral fans of The Hunger Games and True Grit.
After the violent death of her father, in which she is complicit,
Margo takes to the Stark River in her boat, with only a few
supplies and a biography of Annie Oakley, in search of her vanished
mother. But the river, Margo's childhood paradise, is a dangerous
place for a young woman travelling alone, and she must be strong to
survive, using her knowledge of the natural world and her ability
to look unsparingly into the hearts of those around her. Her river
odyssey through rural Michigan becomes a defining journey, one that
leads her beyond self-preservation and to deciding what price she
is willing to pay for her choices.
Collected here are monster stories by some of America's best
writers, including Bonnie Jo Campbell, Ben Percy, and Aimee Bender.
Starring Mud Men and mummies and MothMan, this book brings our
collective fears and fascinations to life.
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