Wyoming (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781947793446)

It's 1988 and Shelley Cooper is in trouble. He's broke, he's been fired from his construction job, and his ex-wife has left him for their next door neighbor and a new life in Kansas City. The only opportunity on his horizon is fifty pounds of his brother's high-grade marijuana, which needs to be driven from Colorado to Houston and exchanged for a lockbox full of cash. The delivery goes off without a hitch, but getting home with the money proves to be a different challenge altogether. Fueled by a grab bag of resentments and self punishment, Shelley becomes a case study in the question of whether it's possible to live without accepting yourself, and the dope money is the key to a lock he might never find. JP Gritton's portrait of a hapless aspirant at odds with himself and everyone around him is both tender and ruthless, and Wyoming considers the possibility of redemption in a world that grants forgiveness grudgingly, if at all.

Author: Jp Gritton
ISBN-10: 1947793446
ISBN-13: 9781947793446
Publisher: Tin House Books
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2019
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2019 pg. 10
Publishers Weekly 09/23/2019
Booklist 10/15/2019 pg. 28
Shelf Awareness 12/06/2019