Bow Grip by Ivan E. Coyote

Bow Grip

Ivan E. Coyote

Winner of the 2007 ReLit Award for Best Novel
Shortlisted for the 2007 Ferro-Grumley Award for Women’s Fiction
An American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book

Ivan E. Coyote is acclaimed as one of North America’s most beguiling storytellers; Ivan’s honest, down-to-earth tales, many of which are based on personal experience, are compelling for their simple human truths. Her 2005 story collection, Loose End, was also shortlisted for the prestigious Ferro-Grumley Award for Women’s Fiction.

Bow Grip, Ivan’s long-awaited first novel, is a breathtaking story about love and loneliness, and the long road one must travel between them. Joey is a good-hearted, fortysomething mechanic from small-town Alberta whose wife has recently left him for another woman. When a stranger named James approaches his shop and agrees to purchase a beat-up blue Volvo in exchange for a beautiful, hand-crafted cello, Joey sees it as an opportunity to finally make some overdue changes in his life.

But some troubling suspicions about James, and a desire to close the door on his failed marriage, compels Joey to hit the road and travel to Calgary, the big city by the Bow River. He stations himself at a rundown motel, where he struggles to learn how to play the cello, and strangers with their own complicated pasts?an older gay man, a single mother?become confidants. With quiet authority, Bow Grip is about one man’s real rite of passage?trying to keep the ghosts of personal history at bay with a heart that’s as big as the endless prairie sky.

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