Gun Love

Gun Love is a poetic story of family, community, and violence, told from the perspective of a sharp-eyed teenager. It exposes America's love affair with firearms and its painful consequences.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 240 pages
\n Publication date: 11 April 2019
\n Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Washington Post has called Gun Love a mesmerizing tale of family, community, and violence. Told from the perspective of a sharp-eyed teenager, it exposes America's love affair with firearms and its tragic consequences.

My mother referred to anyone or anything that appeared lonely or ended up in the wrong place as a stray. There were stray individuals, stray dogs, stray bullets, and stray butterflies.

Fourteen-year-old Pearl France resides in the front seat of a broken-down car, while her mother Margot resides in the back. Together, they survive on a diet of powdered milk, bug spray, love songs, and stolen cigarettes.

Life on the edge of a Florida trailer park is strange enough, but when Pastor Rex's Guns for God program brings Eli Redmond to town, Pearl's world is turned upside down. Eli pays regular visits to Margot in the back seat, forcing Pearl to explore a world beyond the car. Margot receives a gift from Eli, a gun of her own, just like he has given her flowers. It sits under the driver's seat, a dark presence that looms over them both.

One of those rare books that the reader might wish to be a few dozen pages longer, to spend more time in this fully realized world, Observer has said.

\n Weight: 174g\n
Dimension: 193 x 128 x 16 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781784706760\n \n