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Bezig met laden... Sweetgirl (2016)door Travis Mulhauser
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  MaximusStripus | Jul 7, 2020 |   'Everything got sideways,' he said. 'It all got twisted around.' So says one of the characters in this quirky adventure, and I couldn't put it better myself. Sixteen year old Percy James heads through the snow in northern Michigan to find her estranged doped-up mother at a notorious dealer's house, and instead finds a neglected baby freezing to death by an open window. Instead of returning to her truck and driving to hospital, Percy sets off on foot with the baby to her mother's ex boyfriend, Portis Dale, seeking help. When she changes the baby's nappy, they find terrible sores on her body and realise she needs urgent medical attention, but Portis' truck is also parked miles away. So they have to hike through the woods, in a blizzard, with a malnourished baby. And then they realise that Shelton Potter, the dealer living with the baby's drug addict mother, is coming to get the baby back. A breathless blend of True Grit and Fargo, I found myself instantly caught up in Percy's (mis)adventures - all she wanted to do was keep the baby safe from her whacked-out mother, only to find herself on the run from a dangerous and completely unstable man, in sub-zero temperatures, hiking across treacherous terrain in unsuitable footwear. Whatever happened to just calling the police? Percy is a great character with a pioneer spirit and a wry sense of humour, and Portis is equally droll but also full of midwestern wisdom. I even felt sorry for addle-brained Shelton, mourning the death of his dog and trying to do the best by the baby and his mother. There is a lot of substance abuse in this book, but I'm guessing there's not a lot more to do in small, cold town. This is the author's debut novel, but I would definitely read more of his work. Recommended. (  ) AdonisGuilfoyle | Nov 3, 2019 | Signs of a great writer: 1) The ability to horrify the reader with what's happening while making them laugh. Check. 2) Writing from first person POV and swapping with third person - and reader doesn't care/notice/give a damn. Check. 3) Writes about what's happening to his characters in such a way the reader rubs her toes, thinking they too are frost bit. Check. I read this while flying to and from New Orleans for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. It was the perfect airport/plane seat read because I had no clue I was trapped in such crowded conditions. Nope. I was in Michigan with Percy, Shelton (Jughead!), Portis, and all the others. ( ) DonnaEverhart | Mar 23, 2019 | Das Buch lässt sich sehr gut und flüssig lesen. Wir lernen die Geschichte aus der Perspektive von Percy kenne und aus Sheltons Sicht. Mit tat Percy leid, die so viel Verantwortung für ihre Mutter übernehmen muss, dabei sollte es doch eigentlich umgekehrt sein. Kaum hat sie das Baby gesehen, fühlt sie sich auch dafür verantwortlich und ganz gleich, welche Hindernisse sich ihr in den Weg stellen, sie will das Baby retten. Dabei ist es nicht nur die Natur, die es ihr schwer macht, auch Drogendealer Shelton ist unberechenbar. Aber da er ziemlich unterbelichtet ist, wirkt er oft gar nicht so bedrohlich. Aber auch die anderen Verfolger sind drogenbedingt nicht besonders helle. Ich wollte wissen, ob es Percy gelingt, das Kind zu retten, konnte es mir aber kaum vorstellen, da die Flucht langwierig und schwierig ist, das Kind aber nicht für die Wetterverhältnisse angezogen und die Versorgung äußerst dürftig ist. Doch ich will hier nicht verraten, wie die Geschichte endet. Doch dass es dabei Tote gibt, verrät schon der Klappentext. Die Geschichte ist spannend, aber nicht durchgehend. Es passieren manchmal unerwartete Dinge, doch ist auch sehr vieles vorhersehbar. Obwohl manches auch witzig ist, überwiegt das Tragische in dieser Geschichte. Ich fand das Buch interessant, aber dennoch konnte es mich nicht hundertprozentig packen. (  ) buecherwurm1310 | Feb 10, 2019 | And speaking of Portis, you can't help but think of TRUE GRIT's heroine as you share Percy's flight through the snow-covered woods seeking aid for the baby she's grabbed and run with. I thought too of another classic thriller, John Smolens' chilling Upper Peninsula novel, COLD. Or another winter chiller that came to mind was Bill Roorbach's THE REMEDY FOR LOVE. But that's just me - always looking for comparisons. This Mulhauser guy, he's got his own writing chops. He's damn good. I enjoyed the hell outa this book. Very highly recommended. - Tim Bazzett, author of the Michigan memoir, REED CITY BOY ( ) TimBazzett | Oct 2, 2018 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: With the heart, daring, and evocative atmosphere of Winter's Bone and True Grit, and driven by the raw, whip-smart voice of Percy James, a blistering debut about a fearless sixteen-year old girl whose search for her missing mother leads to an unexpected discovery, and a life or death struggle in the harsh frozen landscape of the Upper Midwest. As a blizzard bears down, Percy James sets off to find her troubled mother, Carletta. For years, Percy has had to take care of herself and Mamaâ??a woman who's been unraveling for as long as her daughter can remember. Fearing Carletta is strung out on meth and that she won't survive the storm, Percy heads for Shelton Potter's cabin, deep in the woods of Northern Michigan. A two-bit criminal, as incompetent as he his violent, Shelton has been smoking his own cook and grieving the death of his beloved Labrador, Old Bo. But when Percy arrives, there is no sign of Carletta. Searching the house, she finds Shelton and his girlfriend drugged into oblivionâ??and a crying baby girl left alone in a freezing room upstairs. From the moment the baby wraps a tiny hand around her finger, Percy knows she must save herâ??a split-second decision that is the beginning of a dangerous odyssey in which she must battle the elements and evade Shelton and a small band of desperate criminals, hell-bent on getting that baby back. Knowing she and the child cannot make it alone, Percy seeks help from Carletta's ex, Portis Dale, who is the closest thing she's ever had to a father. As the storm breaks and violence erupts, Percy will be forced to confront the haunting nature of her mother's affliction and finds her own fate tied more and more inextricably to the baby she is determined to save. Filled with the sweeping sense of cultural and geographic isolation of its settingâ??the hills of fictional Cutler County in northern Michiganâ??and told in Percy's unflinching style, Sweetgirl is an affecting exploration of courage, sacrifice, and the ties that bindâ??a taut and darkly humorous tour-de-force that is horrifying, tender, Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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