Robert Gipe
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Robert Gipe brings his Canard County trilogy to a close as his narrator, Dawn, her teen daughter Nicolette, and Dawn's Uncle Hubert get caught up in adventures that reflect an Appalachia that's as much about activism as xenophobia, and is full of caring, creative, and complicated people"--
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Trampoline, a debut novel by Robert Gipe, is set in the coalfields of Kentucky. Its narrator is Dawn Jewell, a teenager who recounts the turbulent time when her grandmother Cora led her into a fight to stop a mountaintop removal coal mine. Dawn's father, Delbert, is dead, killed in the mines, leaving her mother, Tricia, a grieving drunk. Trampoline follows Dawn as she decides whether to save a mountain or save herself; be ruled by love or ruled by...