Gun Love

author: Jennifer Clement
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2019/04/24
date added: 2019/04/24
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'Gun Love' by Jennifer Clement is about a young girl living in a car with her mother and what family can mean.

Pearl France lives in a broken down car with her mother Margot. That means they get by eating what they can and being at the mercy of those who prey on the unfortunate. Pastor Rex, in the nearby trailer park, has a 'Guns for God' programme. That brings a man named Eli around who visits Pearl's mother in the back seat of their car. When Eli brings a gun around, Pearl's world is upended.

It's a rough existence and a look into a world that most of us don't want to see. The prose is sometimes luminous, even in the face of some pretty big despair. There is definitely a character journey that Pearl takes, but it felt incomplete to me a little. That didn't stop me from liking this book, if one can be said to like such characters.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Crown Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.


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