Ultimately, this is a novel about love and forgiveness. Weedeater is both hilarious-Gipe writes dialogue like nobody else-and heartbreaking. “With Canard County and its cast of unforgettable characters, Robert Gipe has created his own little postage stamp of Appalachia-a place broken by addiction and the coal industry, but also bursting with beauty and kindness and resistance. Such a powerful book.”Ĭrystal Wilkinson, author of The Birds of Opulence Weedeater is a pitch-perfect look at our beloved Appalachia, at once an amalgam of masterful writing and characters that are funny and smart and fully human. “Dawn Jewell is back and so is Robert Gipe. Kayla Rae Whitaker, author of The Animators It’s an incredible book, and it’s made me a Robert Gipe fan for life. It is big, bad, throaty, loving storytelling of giant proportions and devastating quickness. “ Weedeater had me by the heart and the gut. I find myself reading them out loud to whoever’s handy and saying, ‘This is how it’s done.’” His characters are as alive as anybody I know, and his sentences jump off the page. “Robert Gipe is the real deal: a genuine storyteller, a writer of wit and style, wisdom and heart. Finalist, 2018 Weatherford Award in Fiction.
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