Lady Chevy

Amy è una ragazza sovrappeso che proviene da una famiglia particolare. Esclusa e bullizzata dai compagni viene soprannominata aperte "Chevy" per il suo generoso fondoschiena. Frequenta l'ultimo anno di liceo e non vede l'ora di andare all'università per evadere dalla provincia che sta inghiottendo l......more

Amy Wirkner lives in a small Ohio town. She is obese and is routinely bullied by her peers, thus her nickname, Chevy because of her size. She is obese and bullied and shamed about it. Amy's parents were cajoled into selling mineral rights to a slick salesman, which has led to fracking, polluted wate......more

"Grandpa told me that a man who wears a cross can’t be trusted. Nor can a man who prays before one. He didn’t like crosses, my grandpa Shoemaker. What he liked was burning them." "These self-righteous social justice warriors who think they have a monopoly on intelligence. They are the blindest of the......more

Reading LADY CHEVY by John Woods reminds me of my first encounters with the work of William Gay, Larry Brown, and Donald Ray Pollock. It's poetic and visceral, full of characters I won't soon forget, the place deeply alive on the page. It's a book of great emotional power, a book that's built to las......more