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Nahoonkara
by
Peter Grandbois (Goodreads Author)
ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award Winner
Finalist for Foreword’s 2011 Book of the Year Award in Literary Fiction
"[Nahoonkara] incorporates elements of historical fiction with experimental fiction, but nothing that pulls the reader out of the fictional dream."
—Robin Martin,Gently Read Literature
"Departing from traditional narrative form, Grandbois moves masterfully bet...more
Finalist for Foreword’s 2011 Book of the Year Award in Literary Fiction
"[Nahoonkara] incorporates elements of historical fiction with experimental fiction, but nothing that pulls the reader out of the fictional dream."
—Robin Martin,Gently Read Literature
"Departing from traditional narrative form, Grandbois moves masterfully bet...more
Paperback, 200 pages
Published
February 22nd 2011
by Etruscan Press
(first published November 1st 2010)
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" I have heard that when some people murmur through the dark grammar of their lives, they actually believe they understand. " ~Peter Grandbois Nahoonkara, 32
This book, which takes place in a small American mountain mining town in the 19th century, incorporates elements of historical fiction with experimental fiction, but nothing that pulls the reader out of the fictional dream. The characters, who tell their own stories for the most part, are distinct and complex. The conflict runs throughout,...more
This book, which takes place in a small American mountain mining town in the 19th century, incorporates elements of historical fiction with experimental fiction, but nothing that pulls the reader out of the fictional dream. The characters, who tell their own stories for the most part, are distinct and complex. The conflict runs throughout,...more
Told from many different points of view Peter Grandbois’s stunning new novel Nahoonkara is the story of brothers and husbands and wives and children and women and men and mothers all striving to find a place for themselves in a world which is sometimes puzzling to them. On the surface, the story takes place mainly in Wisconsin and a mining town in Colorado, but beneath the surface and above the surface, there is the other narrative that is a thread that is everlasting.
Basically, the story begins...more
Basically, the story begins...more
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If I tried to summarize nahoonkara, I’d probably come up with something like this: a story told in the voices of several members of the Gerrull family, moving back and forth between mid-nineteenth-century Wisconsin and a mining town in late nineteenth-century Colorado. It would be a summary that wouldn’t necessarily inspire me to pick up this novel and read it, which goes to show that summaries don’t tell you anything about a book.
Even more than the (his)story of a family in a particular space a...more
Even more than the (his)story of a family in a particular space a...more
A few different voices squabble over how rough it is to be a family and no one quite gets it.
It jumps around a lot and it doesn't seem to have a real plot. However, each voice is well written and distinct and I still enjoyed reading it.
finally came in the mail on the tail of the tropical storm here, funny that.
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Peter Grandbois is the author of The Gravedigger (Chronicle Books, 2006), selected for both the Barnes and Noble “Discover Great New Writers” and the Borders "Original Voices" programs, The Arsenic Lobster (Spuyten Duyvil 2009), selected as one of the top five memoirs of 2009 by Sacramento News and Review, and Nahoonkara (Etruscan Press 2011), winner of the Gold Medal in literary fiction in ForeWo...more
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