Lady Chevy, John Woods
Lady Chevy, John Woods
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Lady Chevy

Author: John Woods

Narrator: Devon Hales

Unabridged: 12 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Scribd Audio

Published: 12/14/2021


Synopsis

Amy Wirkner, a high school senior in Barnesville, Ohio, is a loner, nicknamed “Chevy” for her size. She’s smart, funny, and absolutely determined to escape from her small town in the Ohio Valley, a place poisoned by fracking. She does well in school despite the cruelty of her classmates and has her eyes on a college scholarship, so she can one day become a veterinarian and make something of herself.

But even as she tries to keep her head down and stay out of trouble, trouble seems to find her. Believing toxic water has poisoned her family, Amy one night becomes involved in an act of ecoterrorism against a local fracking company that goes terribly wrong. Her oldest friend Paul, as angry and defiant as she is, has drawn her into this dark world—and now a man is dead as a result. But Amy can’t—won’t—let one night’s mistake stand in the way of her plans.

Touching on important topics as wide-ranging as ethnic hatred, police corruption, environmental decay, and gun violence, Lady Chevy is one girl’s story that highlights the darkest parts of modern America with surprising results.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Giorgia

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

Goodreads review by Skip

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

Goodreads review by Jim

"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

Goodreads review by William

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