Raw Earth Ink is proud to present Patrick Gillespie’s novel, Tiny House, Big Mountain.
From the back cover: With her ex-husband imprisoned for embezzlement, the pampered Virginia Fleetman relocates to an inherited mountainside property expecting to live in a newly-finished vacation home. Instead she finds a half-finished foundation with the builder Drew Tippet and her twelve-year-old daughter Cody living inside. Drew has been planning a new life too, but after the checks stopped coming, she is forced to make the basement a refuge.
When Virginia orders Drew and her daughter out, a cascade of life-altering events inextricably binds them together. Cody’s visions and premonitions, after nearly drowning, make her wonder if anyone, including her own mother, believes her. Drew, with a broken back and ankle–and a worsening dependence on pain medication–struggles to forgive herself. Above all, if they’re to have a home before winter, all three must work together to build a house atop the foundation.
Tiny House, Big Mountain is a coming-of-age novel set in the fictional town of Brookway, Vermont where magical realism is woven with betrayal, addiction, and recovery through the bonds of friendship, family, and community.
If you like novels, I recommend it. It’s a really good story and Patrick is a very good writer. I really enjoyed the magical realism of it. It’s the sort of story that I honestly feel could happen in real life.
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The story may be set in Vermont, but it also sound like something that could well happen in the part of Appalachia where I live.
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If you like novels, I recommend it. It’s a really good story and Patrick is a very good writer. I really enjoyed the magical realism of it. It’s the sort of story that I honestly feel could happen in real life.
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