Jerkwater : a novel / Jamie Zerndt.
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- 9781072842477 (paperback)
- 1072842475 (paperback)
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Main Library | Fiction | ZERNDT, JAMIE | Available | 33111010396634 |
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Set in Mercer, Wisconsin, where tensions over Native American fishing rights are escalating, JERKWATER is told from three alternating points-of-view: Shawna Reynolds, a young Ojibwa woman who doesn't much care for white people to begin with, and who is quickly being pulled in a direction she may no longer have a desire to resist;Kay O'Brien, Shawna's 64-year-old, usually drunk, neighbor who is still grieving the loss of her husband;And Kay's son, Douglas, who now finds himself in charge of running the family's auto repair shop while dealing with his own feelings of guilt.JERKWATER is a story about the racial tensions churning just beneath the surface of what often appears to be placid, everyday American life
Set in Mercer, Wisconsin, where tensions over Native American fishing rights are escalating, Jerkwater is told from three alternating points-of-view: Shawna Reynolds, a young Ojibwa woman who doesn't much care for white people to begin with, and who is quickly being pulled in a direction she may no longer have a desire to resist; Kay O'Brien, Shawna's 64-year-old, usually drunk, neighbor who is still grieving the loss of her husband; and Kay's son, Douglas, who now finds himself in charge of running the family's auto repair shop while dealing with his own feelings of guilt.