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"An impressive debut novel." The Washington Post Finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction When Jackie Dunbar's father dies, she takes a leave from medical school and goes back to the family cattle ranch in Colorado to set affairs in order. But what she finds derails the Dunbar ranch is bankrupt, her sister is having a nervous breakdown, and the oil and gas industry has changed the landscape of this small western town both literally and figuratively, tempting her to sell a gas lease to save the family land. There is fencing to be repaired and calves to be born, and no oneexcept Jackie herselfto take control. But then a gas well explodes in the neighboring ranch, and the fallout sets off a chain of events that will strain trust, sever old relationships, and ignite new ones. Rebecca Clarren's Kickdown is a tautly written debut novel about two sisters and the Iraq war veteran who steps in to help. It is a timeless and timely meditation on the grief wrought by death, war, and environmental destruction. Kickdown , like Kent Haruf's Plainsong or Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone , weaves together the threads of land, family, failure, and perseverance to create a gr

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Author

Clarren, Rebecca, author

Publisher

Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781950691043

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.1 / 5 (176 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14