Ruthie Fear A Novel
eBook - 2020
Winner of the 2021 High Plains Book Award in Fiction and the 2021 Montana Innovation Award In this haunting parable of the American West, a young woman faces the violent past of her remote Montana valley. As a child in Montana's Bitterroot Valley, Ruthie Fear sees an apparition: a strange, headless creature near a canyon creek. Its presence haunts her throughout her youth. Raised in a trailer by her stubborn, bowhunting father, Ruthie develops a powerful connection with the natural world but struggles to find her place in a society shaped by men. Development, gun violence, and her father's vendettas threaten her mountain home. As she comes of age, her small community begins to fracture in the face of class tension and encroaching... natural disaster, and the creature she saw long ago reappears as a portent of the valley's final reckoning. An entirely new kind of western and the first novel from one of this generation's most wildly...
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W. W. Norton & Company
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Online Access
- OverDrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 6 GB |
ISBN | 9780393635577 |
Release Date | 9/1/2020 |
Kindle Book | |
ISBN | 9780393635577 |
ASIN | B085T2YZ5H |
Release Date | 9/1/2020 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780393635577 |
Release Date | 9/1/2020 |