Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel, by Robert Gipe
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“Trampoline is that rare kind of book, a first novel that feels like a fourth or fifth.… It is a roaring tale that knows when to tamp its own fire—which is another way of saying that it is funny as hell but will hurt you too.” — Electric Literature
Dawn Jewell is fifteen. She is restless, curious, and wry. She listens to Black Flag, speaks her mind, and joins her grandmother’s fight against mountaintop removal mining almost in spite of herself. “I write by ear,” says Robert Gipe, and Dawn’s voice is the essence of his debut novel, Trampoline. Jagged and honest, Trampoline is a portrait of a place struggling with the economic and social forces that threaten and define it. Inspired by oral tradition and punctuated by Gipe’s raw and whimsical drawings, it is above all about its heroine, Dawn, as she decides whether to save a mountain or save herself; be ruled by love or ruled by anger; remain in the land of her birth or run for her life.
Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel, by Robert Gipe- Amazon Sales Rank: #730415 in Books
- Brand: Gipe, Robert
- Published on: 2015-03-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.00" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 328 pages
From School Library Journal With her bird's nest of hair, thick neck, and uneasy stare, Dawn Jewel's caricature jumps off this work's cover. But this wisecracking 15-year-old from Canard County, KY, has more to worry about than her looks. She's fighting a war on two fronts: against the mining company that's all but separated her community from its home, Blue Bear Mountain, and against the enemy within, Dawn's family in crisis. Since her father died suspiciously, her mother's gone AWOL, leaving only Dawn's grandmother nominally in charge of her and her brother. Uncle Hubert is primarily a bad influence, employing Dawn to sell moonshine. Then the family faces possible homicide charges when someone is killed in a car accident while Dawn is driving. Only Aunt June provides respite, encouraging Dawn's artistic talent, cooking her a decent meal, and taking her dancing. Despite these troubles, Dawn's stream-of-consciousness commentary about her family is biting and funny. Throughout it all, Bilson Mountain community radio hums beneath the chaos: from the Velvet Underground to Black Flag, deejay Willett Bilson's playlist turns him into Dawn's late night crooner as, shyly, they find each other. Turns out teenagers still fall in love, no matter how heavy things are at home. Gipe's powerful sense of place will seep into teen readers' lives. VERDICT This is a killer debut of one teenager's flight from destruction—strong stuff tempered with humor and love.—Georgia Christgau, Middle College High School, Long Island City, NY
Review “A story that left my heart at once warmed and shattered, Trampoline rides the razor’s edge of raw beauty. This is Appalachia shone with a light uniquely its own. I dare say Robert Gipe has invented his own genre.” —David Joy, author of Where All Light Tends to Go“Robert Gipe has the most original voice to emerge on the literary landscape since Lewis Nordan. Dawn Jewell is a delicious heroine, whether she’s shouldering her way through a community conflict or a family scrimmage. Geographically anchored, yet universally relevant, Trampoline is funny, serious, dark, radiant, and amazingly honest, filled with rich characters and a culture wracked with contradiction and heartbreak, but also strength and resilience. An excellent debut from a gifted and insightful writer.” —Darnell Arnoult, author of Sufficient Grace“I fear this book. I’m in love with this book. I’m laughing out loud at this book. I am knocked to my knees in grief by this book. One of the most powerful works of contemporary fiction I’ve read in years. I’ll never forget Dawn Jewell. I’ll never escape Canard County.” —Ann Pancake, author of Strange as this Weather Has Been and Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley “Trampoline is a moving account of working-class Kentucky mountain people who live in an environment dominated by mountaintop removal coal mining. Trampoline is also the most innovative American fiction to appear in years. The story, the characters and the writing style are startlingly new, as in: original. Trampoline adds a fresh consciousness to the enduring conversation about the Appalachian region. Pathos and humor are present in about equal measure.” —Gurney Norman, author of Divine Right's Trip and Kinfolks“Trampoline is that rare kind of book, a first novel that feels like a fourth or fifth.…It is a roaring tale that knows when to tamp its own fire–which is another way of saying that it is funny as hell but will hurt you too.” —Electric Literature“Dawn Jewell is one of the most memorable and endearing narrators I have ever read. She’s like a combination of Scout Finch, Huck Finn, Holden Caulfield, and True Grit’s Mattie Ross, but even more she is completely her own person, the creation of Robert Gipe, an author who has given us a novel that provides everything we need in great fiction: a sense of place that drips with kudzu and coal dust; complex characters who rise up off the page as living, breathing people we will not soon forget; and a rollicking story that is by turns hilarious, profound, deeply moving, and always lyrically beautiful. I think Trampoline is one of the most important novels to come out of Appalachia in a long while and announces an important new voice in our literature. I loved every single bit of this book.” — Silas House, author of Clay’s Quilt and Eli the Good
“In 1980… John Kennedy Toole’s classic, A Confederacy of Dunces, was published by the Louisiana State University Press. The following year it won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. That may have been the last time a university press introduced a major American voice—the last time, that is, until now…. Trampoline is a new American masterpiece.”—Knoxville News Sentinel
“There are the books you like, and the books you love, and then there are the ones you want to hold to your heart for a minute after you turn the last page. Robert Gipe’s illustrated novel Trampoline is one of those—not just well written, which it is; and not just visually appealing, which the wonderfully deadpan black-and-white drawings make sure of; but there is something deeply lovable about it, an undertow of affection you couldn’t fight if you wanted to. …Gipe deftly avoids every single cliché that could trip such a story up, which includes having a pitch-perfect ear for dialect and making it into something marvelous.” —Lisa Peet, Library Journal’s “What We’re Reading”About the Author Robert Gipe is the director of the Appalachian Program at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College. His fiction has appeared in the journals Appalachian Heritage and Still.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. A Timeless Struggle in a New Dawn By Jo Anna Capeling For people not raised in Appalachian coal country it is difficult to understand the love/hate relationship with an industry that supports financially while tearing the environment to shreds. Fifteen year old Dawn Jewell is telling the story of the mountains through her extended family and their many demons. All of the generations from grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles and cousins are touched by the coal conflict but that is not their only battle. Alcohol, drugs , and addictions hang from every branch of the family tree and what would devastate most families is treated casually, a byproduct of the life in Canard county. They call it fiction until you reside there. Wonderfully crafted slice of life. A really good read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Mountain Family, Mountain Removal By MSW New Jersey First I just flipped through a few pages, not expecting too much, and got sucked in before I knew what hit me. The illustrations, also by Robert Gipe, are little b&w images of narrator Dawn Jewell's face with a line of dialog or monologue. I don't know that they are necessary to the story, but they make an attractive punctuation. The story is of a teenage girl caught up in the sometimes-violent antics of her trashy, drug-dealing junk-food-scarfing Kentucky family. Her voice is wonderful, and she relates one incident leading to the next in a way that seems to define the lives of the poorest: you have to do something to get some money, you have to do something to anesthetize your hopelessness, you get in an argument, you throw a punch, you end up in the emergency room or thrown out of school, you get released and still need the money and the anesthesia, and it all starts over again Happily, and quite realistically, the novel also has a strong sub-plot--or maybe super-plot-- about Dawn's grandmother being an organizer against mountaintop removal. There are brief organizing scenes, and a visit to the governor (an excellent scene in which Dawn gets a glimpse of how the world works at the top), and, while the people on Blue Boar mountain get a bit of a reprieve, this story is set at the end of the nineties, so we know that the mountains are still being beheaded. The limits to how far any individual's political efforts can go is realistic, and the political and personal are woven together extremely well. At one point, Dawn talks about the dilemma of those who love the mountains but also tear them up to make a living:"Those Coal miners who had been so good to me, who had loved me through my tree-hugging ways, needed mountains and woods more than any of us. They loved it here, and they had to tear it up to stay. The full hard hardness of their lot came down on me that winter night, and I knew maybe not them but other coal-mining people would be mad at me, would hate me, but after that night, I never was mad at them, not the ones who lived here with me, not the ones taking their own sorrow and joy from what was left of these trees, these rocks, these rustling waters." (P. 226) Another thread is Dawn's search for a young radio DJ over a state line (to Kingsport, Tennessee) whose voice appeals to her. The whole novel is essentially Thanksgiving though the Christmas holidays with fights, oxytocin, moonshine, attempted suicide, possible murder or maybe just death, plus a little unsexy sex– it's a heartbreakingly real story, with an excellent use of contemporary Appalachian voices.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Worth the read By lillirose51 A worthwhile read...Dawn Jewell is a character that one empathizes with and that carries a distinctive voice...the narrative has many beautiful moments in it, and the plotting carries the reader forward - one wishes to find out what happens next and how things turn out. The illustrations are wonderful, charming and quirky and help convey Dawn's character beautifully (they are harder to see in the Kindle version than in the print version, so I kept a magnifying glass on hand - but I did like that on my Kindle version Dawn's green hair was colored in and that is not true in the print version). Having lived in the region where the story is set, I've seen many young people struggle with similar conflicts and with the contradictory tugs of loyalty.One thing keep me from giving this debut novel five stars.The time frame of the narrative present is not clearly established any where in the book. In the beginning I thought it was contemporary (since conflicts in the region over mountain top removal mining is a current issue). But then details about computers - and the persistent lack of cell phones (and the characterization of the Kentucky governor) suggested that the time period was about 15 to 16 years ago. Related to the problem of the precise timing of the "narrative present" is the sudden switch from a present tense voice of teenage Dawn relating current events, to the voice of an older Dawn about future changes that will occur in the future. I found this jarring, and disruptive to the otherwise flowing narrative.
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