Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel

Synopsis

Trampoline, A Debut Novel By Robert Gipe, Is Set In The Coalfields Of Kentucky. Its Narrator Is Dawn Jewell, A Teenager Who Recounts The Turbulent Time When Her Grandmother Cora Led Her Into A Fight To Stop A Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine. Dawn’s Father, Delbert, Is Dead, Killed In The Mines, Leaving Her Mother, Tricia, A Grieving Drunk. Trampoline Follows Dawn As She Decides Whether To Save A Mountain Or Save Herself; Be Ruled By Love Or Ruled By Anger; Remain In The Land Of Her Birth Or Run For Her Life. Trampoline Includes More Than Two Hundred Drawings That Punctuate The Narrative In A Unique, Dramatic, And Moving Way And Amplify Dawn’s Telling Of Her Story.