Wyoming

By J.P. Gritton

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1947793446
• ISBN13: 9781947793446
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"