Robin Gregory

The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Moojie Littleman is an unusual boy with an unusual talenthe's disabled and has miraculous healing powers. After being left by his widower father at St. Isidore's Fainting Goat Dairy, he's determined to recreate a family of his own.

Can a boy who has never fit in join a clan of otherworldly beings mistaken for renegade Native Americans?

Through a series of misadventures, Moojie is called to a great destiny ... if only he can survive one last terrifying trial.

Welcome to the mythical 1900s world of mayhem and merriment, where miracles are as real as extraterrestrials, and noxious spirits roam the ancestral site of decimated American Indians. From screenwriter and award-winning novelist, Robin Gregory, comes a masterful début about family and first lovebrimming with compassion, lyrical magic, and originality.
(Adapted from novel that won 22 awards, including Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of the Year)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Robin Gregory
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463149287
• Artikelnr.: 52947038

Autorenporträt

Robin Gregory was born in Florida and raised in California with seven siblings, and in the company of cowboys, crawdads, and the occasional rattlesnake. When not writing magical realist novels and screenplays, she likes to hike in the wilderness, listen to difficult jazz, talk with angels, and watch Guillermo del Toro films.

Her début, young adult novel, The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman, is about a disabled, orphan boy with healing powers who befriends an otherworldly clan. It won 22 awards, including Kirkus Reviews, Indiefab, IPPY Best Books of the Year. Chinese and Turkish translations to be released Summer, 2018.

Mrs. Gregory studied Creative Writing and Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Stanford University's Writer's Workshop. Her professional experience includes journalist, minister, and mapmaker.

What are her favorite things? Saints with potty-mouths, children under the dinner table, the classics, and corn chips.

Presently, she lives in California with two comedians, her husband and son.