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Trampoline
Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel | Robert Gipe
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Dawn Jewell is fifteen. She is restless, curious, and wry. She listens to Black Flag, speaks her mind, and joins her grandmothers fight against mountaintop removal mining almost in spite of herself. I write by ear, says Robert Gipe, and Dawns voice is the essence of his debut novel, Trampoline. She lives in eastern Kentucky with her addict mother and her Mamaw, whose stance against the coal companies has earned her the communitys ire. Jagged and honest, Trampoline is a powerful portrait of a place struggling with the economic and social forces that threaten and define it. Inspired by oral tradition and punctuated by Gipes raw and whimsical drawings, it is above all about its heroine, Dawn, as she decides whether to save a mountain or save herself; be ruled by love or ruled by anger; remain in the land of her birth or run for her life.
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Hoopiefoot
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Choosing my #top6reads was harder than expected! In a little reading slump at the moment and so it was fun to look back and see all the great books I‘ve already read this year.

What a great idea, @Cinfhen and thanks for the tag @mklong !

Cinfhen I‘m excited by your list...as some have been on my radar but wasn‘t sure....thanks for sharing ❤️ 5y
KarenUK I pre-ordered the Emma Hooper.... can‘t wait to read it now... 👍💕😊 (edited) 5y
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Erynecki
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What a voice. Dawn Jewell is fifteen and her life is complicated. Gipe unfolds a story about the coal fields of east Kentucky, family trauma and drama, and fifteen year old Dawn‘s struggle to figure it all out.
This is a book that‘s going to stay with me for a long time.

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Kisha.j
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"I write by ear." Robert Gipe

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