Vendor
	Liepman Literary Agency Marc Koralnik
Original language
English
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COYOTE

Colin Winnette

Winner of the 2013 NOS Book Contest, as selected by guest judge Aimee Bender.

A daughter disappears in the middle of the night. What happens in the aftermath of this tragedyafter the search is abandoned, after the TV crews move on to cover the latest horrific incidentis the story of Coyote. There is a marriage and a detective. There is a storm, a talk show host, and a roasted boar. People are murdered and things are hidden. Coyotes skulk in the woods, a man stands by the fence, and a tale emerges within this familiar landscape of the violent unknown.

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Book Published 2015-01-01 by Les Figues

Comments

Coyote has a strong and inviting voice and that voice wraps around a dark story, a contemporary story, and one that has its own velocity and fragmentation built in. I found myself swept along in it and impacted by its delicate/bleak movement.

Like a modern-day Poe, Winnette has fashioned a narrator whose pull on the reader's sympathy gradually fades as she recounts the aftermath of her daughter's mysterious disappearance Winnette's deeply affecting story is hard to put down and even harder to forget.

DeNoel

While there's a contemporary urgency to Winnette's novel, it's the small details (and how they are revealed) that give this story its considerable sting.