American Salvage

Name: American Salvage
Author: Bonnie Jo Campbell

by Bonnie Jo Campbell

Interconnected stories of rural Michigan working-class lives marked by violence and struggle

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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.

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Q RoadWoman's isolated existence in rural Michigan challenged by stranger's arrival
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