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FRANCIE'S GOT A GUN
A suspenseful tale about a girl navigating chaotic family life in a close-knit small town.
On a June afternoon in a small city, a wild-eyed girl named Francie dashes down a neighborhood street, clutching a gun. She doesn't know exactly what she's running from, and she doesn't know what she's heading towards. All she understands is the need to survive. To save herself, she has no choice but to run and to save those she loves, she must hold tight to that gun.
Swirling around Francie is a chorus of friends, family, and neighbors, each person with a different view of her. As we hear from these voices Francie's steadfast best friend, Alice; Alice's comically unaware mother, Sally, and struggling mathematician father, David; Francie's distressed and distracted mother, Marietta, and troubled, unwell father, Luce a fractured portrait emerges of the girl and the village surrounding her. And at last we arrive at a still point in the chaos: a tall tree where Francie takes shelter, and where the meaning of her flight for herself, and for the people around her becomes clear.
In Francie's Got a Gun, award-winning writer Carrie Snyder assembles a chorus of unforgettable characters who are both well-intentioned and flawed. At their center is Francie, a vulnerable, imaginative girl with surprising attachments to each of them. Here is a propulsive, polyphonic, heart-expanding novel equal parts sorrow and humor, fear and love, anger and kindness about social breakdown and the quest for connection in a close-knit community.
CARRIE SNYDER is an award-winning Canadian writer who has published three books of literary fiction and two books for children. Her debut novel Girl Runner sold in twelve territories, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Award for Fiction, and has been optioned for film. Her short story collection Hair Hat was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award for Short Fiction, and her novel-in-stories The Juliet Stories was a finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award.
Swirling around Francie is a chorus of friends, family, and neighbors, each person with a different view of her. As we hear from these voices Francie's steadfast best friend, Alice; Alice's comically unaware mother, Sally, and struggling mathematician father, David; Francie's distressed and distracted mother, Marietta, and troubled, unwell father, Luce a fractured portrait emerges of the girl and the village surrounding her. And at last we arrive at a still point in the chaos: a tall tree where Francie takes shelter, and where the meaning of her flight for herself, and for the people around her becomes clear.
In Francie's Got a Gun, award-winning writer Carrie Snyder assembles a chorus of unforgettable characters who are both well-intentioned and flawed. At their center is Francie, a vulnerable, imaginative girl with surprising attachments to each of them. Here is a propulsive, polyphonic, heart-expanding novel equal parts sorrow and humor, fear and love, anger and kindness about social breakdown and the quest for connection in a close-knit community.
CARRIE SNYDER is an award-winning Canadian writer who has published three books of literary fiction and two books for children. Her debut novel Girl Runner sold in twelve territories, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Award for Fiction, and has been optioned for film. Her short story collection Hair Hat was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award for Short Fiction, and her novel-in-stories The Juliet Stories was a finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award.
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Published 2023-07-26 by Knopf |