Wyoming: a Novel

praise for wyoming

"From its first assured sentence to its last, Wyoming marks the debut of a gifted story-teller. This is a compassionate novel, for all its violence and despair, an authentic, pitch-perfect portrait of an America too often caricatured or ignored. There are hard truths here, grit and cruelty, but JP Gritton's fine prose is nuanced enough, generous enough, to keep his troubled narrator's humanity, his beating heart, apparent at every turn."

-Alice McDermott, author of Charming Billy, National Book Award winner

"Money, family, sex, crime, and mayhem—Wyoming combines the thrill of genre work with the genuine human investigation one hopes to see in a literary novel, and the result is wickedly pleasurable and satisfyingly disturbing. J.P. Gritton’s terse prose about dark-minded men reminds me of the novels of Pete Dexter. This is a marvelous debut and a writer to watch."

—Robert Boswell, author of The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

"J.P. Gritton's Wyoming is a taut, headlong novel about friendship, brotherhood, and bad decisions—what a man might do for a chance at a different life, and who he might be willing to hurt. Shelley Cooper is a blue-collar antihero, flawed but compelling, in the tradition of Daniel Woodrell or Donald Ray Pollock. When trouble beckons, he just can't help himself, and you can't help but root for him, even as he leaves a trail of wreckage in his wake."

—Justin St. Germain, author of Son of a Gun

where you can find an excerpt

Excerpts of Wyoming have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, New Ohio Review, and Cimarron Review.

order

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