The story is about a teenage girl called Margaret "Margo" Crane, who lives in the backwaters of Michigan in the USA. Just $12 for 3 months or It is the first book I've read by this author, but, I don't think it will be the last! We knew a self-sufficient family who supplied all their food by hunting, fishing, and gardening. Margo is earthy. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. If this sounds a bit like “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” the comparison is, perhaps, inevitable: Put a teenager on a river, and that’s what you get. She feels like a dull space, a total void of life and thought. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Her Mom leaves and her father dies and she sets off on her own on the river. Bonnie Jo Campbell has created a character I will not soon forget. The females are reclusive.”. I've lived through several floods on that river, even being rescue carried from my home to safety by stoic volunteers in chest waders. Bonnie Jo Campbell introduces the main character in full and raw emotion not so much unlike the trials of ones youth. We’d love your help. Also troubling is the author's constantly referring to her as beautiful, which seems to reinforce the trope that men were constantly exploiting her for her so-called beauty rather than more realistically abusing power as older men over a much younger woman. Margo, determined to find her mother, who abandoned her and her husband some years before, sets out on tracking her down. So I'm not going to finish it. After enduring a series of traumas and tragedies, Margo (newcomer Kenadi DelaCerna) sets out on an odyssey on the Stark River in search of her estranged mother. The place was overgrown, spooky in its neglect. The quality of the writing and the descriptions are good. I used to love Annie Oakley as a kid (just as Margo does), so for me Margo's ability to live off the land and shoot to kill is a nice piece of wish fulfillment and I doubt I'm the only reader who feels that way. Margo is beautiful. There was a problem loading your book clubs. A young girl has experienced numerous losses in her youth. Adept at trapping and skinning and an excellent shot (Annie Oakley her inspiration), she will now find her own way. On the water, Margo encounters friends, foes, wonders, and dangers; navigating … A natural sharpshooter, she becomes one with her gun, and in her unnervingly reserved and quiet, determined way, she immerses herself in the tasks of hunting and butchering her kills, which make far more sense to her than negotiating her the confusing and compelling relationships with her various family members. Not what I expected in a storyline. I found this book a difficult read. Reading a Bonnie Jo Campbell book is like sitting down for a cuppa, or a cold one, with your very best gal pal. This was kind of a strange book about a girl who grows up on the river and how her sheltered and rural lifestyle leaves her socially dysfunctional. What issues are on the ballot in California and Los Angeles County. This is a book about a teenage girl in 1980's rural Michigan who is raised alongside a river and doesn't really have much of a family. From the way she lets men take advantage of her, you can tell she really didn't learn about boundaries and to protect herself. Finally a story with real grit realism that is still endearing! Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier. Opening in the late Seventies we are introduced to Margaret Louise 'Margo' Crane. Michigan rivers, a girl who shows as much emotion as a river does, and a teak boat with splintery oars. This young girl. This felt very much like a companion piece to Willy Vlautin's Lean On Pete, a similarly plaintive tale of a boys daily struggles for food, warmth, shelter and love, following the death of a less than perfect father, and absence of a self centered mother. July 5th 2011 The wonder of “Once Upon a River” is how fresh and weathered it seems at the same time. Goodbye to Budapest: A Novel of the Hungarian Uprising, Oranges for Christmas: A Berlin Wall Escape Novel, The Fire and the Light: A Novel of the Cathars, Stone and Steel: A Novel Of The Roman Empire (Colossus Book 1), Beneath the Same Stars: A Novel of the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War, God's Hammer: A Viking Age Novel (Hakon's Saga Book 1), The Ripper Deception: A Lawrence Harpham Murder Mystery Book 2, Campbell has a ruthless and precise eye for the details of the physical world. To give us heroines like this, the gods finally brought us Bonnie Jo Campbell, one of our most important and necessary writers. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 13, 2013. You can let loose and relax, kick your shoes off, loosen your girdle, because she does, her story does, the way it weaves in and around you and floats you along, easy, easy. She willingly sleeps with a man, only to decide later that she was forced, and then stalks him with her rifle and shoots off the end of his penis. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2012. Not willing to let off at any point. Critic, Book World. $39 for a year. Essentially it's the story of a teen-age girl who is raped and abandoned and runs away from home to live by her wits -- her rifle, her ability to skin animals and catch fish and build fires, her knowledge of nature's power and its gifts. When those same flood waters froze several acres of my backyard, I happily strapped on my skates and glided over the tiny frozen fish bubbled in the ice. While the men all praise her aim with a rifle and her self-reliance, she is not as much of an anomaly as they might think; Margo is actually an unwitting adherent to the "back to the land" movement that began in the 1960s and has recently enjoyed an upsurge in popularity in various forms (homesteading, permaculture, off-the-grid, the locavore movement). Sold by Global Dist USA LLC and ships from Amazon Fulfillment. There is something just...likeable about her fiction, even when I pretty much dislike every person in them. Along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, Diane di Prima helped change the course of 20th century literature. The dock was pulled out of the water, and grass and weeds poked up through the slats.

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