Bonnie Jo Campbell
American novelist whose American Salvage and Once Upon a River explore working-class rural Michigan life with lyrical power. American Salvage was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is one of the finest voices in contemporary American Midwestern fiction.
Works
- Q RoadWoman's isolated existence in rural Michigan challenged by stranger's arrival
- American SalvageInterconnected stories of rural Michigan working-class lives marked by violence and struggle
- Once Upon a RiverEpic narrative of a teenage girl seeking her missing father along the Michigan river
- The WatersExploration of familial trauma and survival in Michigan's industrial heartland
- mothers, tell your daughtersStories of women confronting vulnerability and violence in rural American communities