Weedeater An Illustrated Novel
Weedeater An Illustrated Novel by Robert Gipe, published by Ohio University Press on February 18, 2020, is a contemporary narrative that explores themes of love and loss through the lives of eastern Kentucky mountaineers. This illustrated edition spans 256 pages and presents a story centered on Gene, a landscaper, and Dawn Jewell, a young mother, as they navigate the complexities of a family grappling with drugs, art, and politics amidst the backdrop of environmental challenges and personal struggles.
In Weedeater, readers will encounter a vivid portrayal of Canard County during a critical period marked by the decline of the coal industry and the community’s fight against opioid abuse. The narrative unfolds with a blend of humor and stoic grace, capturing the frantic events that shape the characters’ lives. Through Gene and Dawn’s journeys, the book delves into the search for lost connections and the quest for new purpose in the face of adversity, reflecting on how individuals can rebuild their lives from the remnants of what they once held dear.
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A finalist for the 2019 Weatherford Award in Fiction, Weedeater is a contemporary story of love and loss told by a pair of eastern Kentucky mountaineers: Gene, the lovelorn landscaper who bears witness to the misadventures of a family entangled in drugs, artmaking, and politics, a family beset by both environmental and self-destruction; and Dawn Jewell, a young mother searching–for lost family members, lost youth, lost community, and lost heart. Picking up six years after the end of Robert Gipe’s acclaimed first novel, Trampoline, in Weedeater, the reader finds Canard County living through the last hurrah of the coal industry and the most turbulent and deadly phase of the community’s battle with opioid abuse. The events Gipe chronicles are frantic. They are told through a voice by turns taciturn and angry, yet also balanced with humor and stoic grace. Weedeater is a story about how we put our lives back together when we lose the things we thought we couldn’t bear losing, how we find new purpose in what we thought were scraps and trash caught in the weeds.
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