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Missy Anne can write her ass off. Shelton, Washington's version of Bastard Out of Carolina. A beautiful, restless, troublesome book.
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the best novel about working class northwest youth.
Jimmy James Blood by Missy Anne is a self-published first novel from a local Mason County author. The Total Bummer Bookclub called Jimmy James Blood "Shelton, Washington's version of Bastard Out of Carolina" and that's pretty accurate. It is a working class coming of age story that uses the natural landscape of the pacific northwest to explore the theme of poverty and environmental destruction familiar to those of us who grew up in logging/timb ...more
Jimmy James Blood by Missy Anne is a self-published first novel from a local Mason County author. The Total Bummer Bookclub called Jimmy James Blood "Shelton, Washington's version of Bastard Out of Carolina" and that's pretty accurate. It is a working class coming of age story that uses the natural landscape of the pacific northwest to explore the theme of poverty and environmental destruction familiar to those of us who grew up in logging/timb ...more
Memorable. Raw. Significant.
Melissa Peterson’s Vera Violet tells the story of an American town on the brink of ruin, a working-class family’s decent into poverty, and the kids who must face adulthood in a near-hopeless place and time. Fresh, provocative, and chock-full of truth. The novel blew me away. Peterson tackles contentious social, political, and ecological issues with the care and intimacy born of experience. Like her main character Vera Violet, she is an intense observer of the human e ...more
Melissa Peterson’s Vera Violet tells the story of an American town on the brink of ruin, a working-class family’s decent into poverty, and the kids who must face adulthood in a near-hopeless place and time. Fresh, provocative, and chock-full of truth. The novel blew me away. Peterson tackles contentious social, political, and ecological issues with the care and intimacy born of experience. Like her main character Vera Violet, she is an intense observer of the human e ...more
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Mandy
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May 09, 2016
Jace
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Feb 21, 2020
Melissa Peterson
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it was amazing
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