· With the cinematic and terrifying beauty of the American South humming behind each line, Jon Pineda’s Let’s No One Get Hurt is a coming-of-age story set equally between real-world issues of race and socioeconomics, and a magical, Huck Finn-esque universe of community and exploration. Fifteen-year-old Pearl is squatting in an abandoned boathouse with her father, a disgraced college Brand: Picador. Let’s No One Get Hurt by Jon Pineda. Jon Pineda’s new novel has a vaguely apocalyptic feel as year-old Pearl squats on abandoned property with her father, an alcoholic former professor of modernist poetry, family friends Dox and Fritter, and a dog named Marianne Moore. · With the cinematic and terrifying beauty of the American South humming behind each line, Jon Pineda’s Let’s No One Get Hurt is a coming-of-age story set equally between real-world issues of race and socioeconomics, and a magical, Huck Finn-esque universe of community and www.doorway.rury: Free.
FICTION Let's No One Get Hurt by Jon Pineda Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published Ma. Jon Pineda is the award-winning author of several books, including his debut novel Apology, winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, and the memoir Sleep in Me, a Library Journal "Best Books of " www.doorway.ru has also authored the poetry collections The Translator's Diary. With Let's No One Get Hurt, Jon Pineda (Apology) offers a wild, yearning, strong-willed protagonist and a novel with both tenderness and violence at its core. "In a few months, I'll be sixteen, but my body doesn't know it." Pearl's father says she's 15 going on She lives in an abandoned boathouse with her father and two other. "An inventive and powerful coming of age story about the search for community and all the ways our ties to one another come undone. Jon Pineda has a poet's eye for the details of this vivid, haunting landscape, and he brings it blazingly to life." #;Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of SpeculationW.
With the cinematic and terrifying beauty of the American South humming behind each line, Jon Pineda's Let's No One Get Hurt is a coming-of-age story set equally between real-world issues of race and socioeconomics, and a magical, Huck Finn-esque universe of community and exploration. Fifteen-year-old Pearl is squatting in an abandoned boathouse with her father, a disgraced college professor, and two other grown men, deep in the swamps of the American South. In Jon Pineda’s deeply satisfying, often startling second novel, Let’s No One Get Hurt, fifteen-year-old Pearl is a girl long on suffering yet short on self-pity. She resides in a ramshackle, impoverished boathouse somewhere in the American South, on the verdant banks of an unnamed river, with her ruined father, his old friend Dox, and Dox’s military veteran son, Fritter. Let’s No One Get Hurt by Jon Pineda. Jon Pineda’s new novel has a vaguely apocalyptic feel as year-old Pearl squats on abandoned property with her father, an alcoholic former professor of modernist poetry, family friends Dox and Fritter, and a dog named Marianne Moore.
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