Trouble Finds You by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
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To say Harry Stables’ life lately has hit a bit of a low patch lately is an understatement. In his mid-20s, he’s been kicked out of his MFA program for fighting, his ex-girlfriend turned down his spur-of-the-moment marriage proposal, and he’s spent the last ten days in his dad’s falling-down Montana fishing cabin with his dog Greta trying to find out how his mother really died when he was a baby, something his father – now dying himself of cancer – has refused to tell either him or his sister their whole lives. On top of all this, he’s just been to a party outside Missoula where he received a nasty dog bite and where he’s pretty sure he may have been an accessory to a fatal shooting. Ignoring the advice of both his sister and Calvin Hogan – fishing guide, old friend of his father’s, and companion to the lovable mutt Herkimer – Harry first tries to untangle the details of the shooting himself and eventually winds up on the lam, pursued by persecutors both real and imagined. As the cops and the accumulated psychic weight of his actions bears down on him, Harry must ultimately reckon with what sort of man he will be.
Praise for Trouble Finds You:
“Sometimes you look left or right and the world just ploughs into you, takes you down. Trouble Finds You does the same -- and doesn’t let up.”
—James Sallis
“Now that Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s Trouble Finds You has found you, go ahead and buckle up and in. And trust me on this. You are bound for images that’ll shake you like a saltshaker and this American yarn has undertow to it--and cinematic dialogue that crackles like a campfire.”
—Abraham Smith
Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of several books of poetry, including Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk (Winner of the Iowa Prize 2005), Meadow Slasher and Swamp Isthmus, a top-ten Amazon book of 2013. His poems have appeared in Tin House, Poetry, The Iowa Review, and The Believer, among many others. Born and raised in Seattle, he’s lived in Turkey, Slovakia, Ireland, Denver, Chicago, and Tucson, where he taught for eight years in the MFA program at the University of Arizona. This year Wilkinson was the Andrew Mellon-funded Scholar-in-Residence at Rhodes University, South Africa. He lives in Seattle.
Publication Date: September 12th, 2023 Fiction
• $18.95
• Paperback
• 348pp ISBN: 978-1-7378036-8-3
• Distributed by NYU Press
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