Bow Grip

Ivan E. Coyote is one of North America s most beguiling storytellers and the author of three story collections, including "Loose End, " which was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction in 2006. "Bow Grip, " Coyote s first novel, is a breathtaking story about love and loneliness; in it, a good-hearted, small-town mechanic struggles to deal with a wife who has left him for another woman until a used cello and an acquaintance s suicide attempt compel him to make some changes in his life. With quiet authority, "Bow Grip" is about one man s true rite of passage trying to keep the ghosts of personal history at bay with a heart that s as big as the endless prairie sky."