Bonnie Jo Campbell has made her mark writing mesmerizing stories and gripping novels about the dark and desperate side of country living. Now, the National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle Mothers Tell Your Daughters by Bonnie Jo CampbellAward finalist has a new collection of stories—Mothers, Tell Your Daughters.
With gorgeously ragged prose and Campbell’s uncanny knack for irony, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters captures the central mysteries of life through her fierce women characters that one reviewer likened to “rusty razorblades—damaged but still sharp enough to draw blood.”
In her earlier 2009 collection, American Salvage, Bonnie Jo Campbell picked through the precarious, primordial territory of small-town America to reveal the gun-toting, hard-drinking, manure-crusted lives of rural men and women on the brink. It helped establish her as one the country’s best writers of “rural noir.”
Campbell’s national bestselling novel, Once Upon A River, created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane—a willful, backwoods beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle did not make her life any easier. The New York Times described Once Upon A River as “rural Michigan gothic” and an “excellent American parable about the consequences of our favorite ideal, freedom.” It also established Campbell as one of the best modern writers of contemporary realism.
With gorgeously ragged prose and Campbell’s uncanny knack for irony, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters captures the central mysteries of life through her fierce women characters that one reviewer likened to “rusty razorblades—damaged but still sharp enough to draw blood.”
In her earlier 2009 collection, American Salvage, Bonnie Jo Campbell picked through the precarious, primordial territory of small-town America to reveal the gun-toting, hard-drinking, manure-crusted lives of rural men and women on the brink. It helped establish her as one the country’s best writers of “rural noir.”
Campbell’s national bestselling novel, Once Upon A River, created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane—a willful, backwoods beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle did not make her life any easier. The New York Times described Once Upon A River as “rural Michigan gothic” and an “excellent American parable about the consequences of our favorite ideal, freedom.” It also established Campbell as one of the best modern writers of contemporary realism.
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