{"product_id":"9780735281912","title":"Francie's Got a Gun","description":"\u003cb\u003eONE OF CBC'S BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS OF 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA suspenseful and poignant tale from an award-winning writer about a girl navigating chaotic family life in a close-knit small town.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a June afternoon in a small city, a wild-eyed girl named Francie dashes down a neighbourhood  street,  clutching  a  gun.  She  doesn’t  know exactly  what  she’s  running  from,  and  she  doesn’t know  what  she’s  heading  towards.  All  she  understands is the need to survive. To save herself, she has no choice but to run—and to save those she loves, she must hold tight to that gun.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSwirling around Francie is a chorus of friends, family, and neighbours, each person with a different view  of  her.  As  we  hear  from  these  voices—Francie’s  steadfast  best  friend,  Alice;  Alice’s  comically unaware  mother,  Sally,  and  struggling  mathematician  father,  David;  Francie’s  distressed  and  distracted  mother,  Marietta,  and  troubled,  unwell father,  Luce—a  fractured  portrait  emerges  of  the girl and the village surrounding her. And at last we arrive at a still point in the chaos: a tall tree where Francie takes shelter, and where the meaning of her flight—for herself, and for the people around her—becomes clear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFrancie’s Got a Gun\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning writer Carrie Snyder assembles a chorus of unforgettable characters who are both well-intentioned and  flawed.  At  their  centre  is  Francie,  a  vulnerable,  imaginative  girl with  surprising  attachments  to  each  of  them.  Here  is  a  propulsive, polyphonic, heart-expanding novel—equal parts sorrow and humour, fear and love, anger and kindness—about social breakdown and the quest for connection in a close-knit community.","brand":"Carrie Snyder (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Canada |  Hardback  |  2022-07-26","offer_id":44151443685631,"sku":"9780735281912","price":32.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_69cda589-bb07-489e-9afe-d34ebc5b2067.jpg?v=1645106597","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780735281912","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}