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Suder, November 2025
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Half an Inch of Water, September 2015
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Assumption, November 2011
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Wounded, September 2005
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WOUNDED
By: Percival Everett

Wounded is a briskly written novel by an author of ready intelligence and considerable wit who is not shy about taking on complicated issues. I only wish he'd given the whole thing a hundred more pages. -Jane Smiley

Graywolf Press
September 2005
Featuring: John Hunt
242 pages
ISBN: 1555974279
Hardcover
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Contemporary

The horse isn’t supposed to make decisions. That’s the first thing. The second thing is that the rider is supposed to make decisions. If the horse gets ahead of you, you might get left behind.

Training horses is dangerous—a head-to-head confrontation with 1,000 pounds of muscle and little sense takes courage, but more importantly patience and smarts. It is these same qualities that allow John and his uncle Gus to live in the beautiful high desert of Wyoming. A black horse trainer is a curiosity, at the very least, but a familiar curiosity in these parts. It is the brutal murder of a young gay man, however, that pushes this small community to the teetering edge of fear and tolerance.

As the first blizzard of the season gains momentum, John is forced to reckon not only with the daily burden of unruly horses, a three-legged coyote pup, an escape-artist mule, and too many people, but also a father-son war over homosexuality, random hate-crimes, and—perhaps most frightening of all—a chance for love.

Highly praised for his storytelling and ability to address the toughest issues of our time with humor, grace, and originality, Everett offers a brilliant novel that explores the alarming consequences of hatred in a divided America.

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All Things Considered - October 11, 2005