SWEETGIRL
Book ID/图书代码： 03890015B81680
English Summary/英文概要： With the heart, daring, and evocative atmosphere of Winter’s Bone and True Grit, and driven by the raw, whip-smart voice of Percy James, a blistering debut about a fearless sixteen-year old girl whose search for her missing mother leads to an unexpected discovery, and a life or death struggle in the harsh frozen landscape of the Upper Midwest.
As a blizzard bears down, Percy James sets off to find her troubled mother, Carletta. For years, Percy has had to take care of herself and Mama—a woman who’s been unraveling for as long as her daughter can remember. Fearing Carletta is strung out on meth and that she won’t survive the storm, Percy heads for Shelton Potter’s cabin, deep in the woods of Northern Michigan. A two-bit criminal, as incompetent as he is violent, Shelton has been smoking his own cook and grieving the death of his beloved Labrador, Old Bo.
But when Percy arrives, there is no sign of Carletta. Searching the house, she finds Shelton and his girlfriend drugged into oblivion—and a crying baby girl left alone in a freezing room upstairs. From the moment the baby wraps a tiny hand around her finger, Percy knows she must save her—a split-second decision that is the beginning of a dangerous odyssey in which she must battle the elements and evade Shelton and a small band of desperate criminals, hell-bent on getting that baby back. Knowing she and the child cannot make it alone, Percy seeks help from Carletta’s ex, Portis Dale, who is the closest thing she’s ever had to a father. As the storm breaks and violence erupts, Percy will be forced to confront the haunting nature of her mother’s affliction and finds her own fate tied more and more inextricably to the baby she is determined to save.
Filled with the sweeping sense of cultural and geographic isolation of its setting—the hills of fictional Cutler County in northern Michigan—and told in Percy’s unflinching style, Sweetgirl is an affecting exploration of courage, sacrifice, and the ties that bind—a taut and darkly humorous tour-de-force that is horrifying, tender, and hopeful.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 有着《冬天的骨头》和《大地惊雷》荡气回肠般动人故事的情节的这部小说，向读者讲述了一位年仅16岁的，名叫Percy James，勇敢而又聪明的女孩，寻找失踪母亲中所引发的意外发现，以及如何在美国中西部的严酷冬季如何与死神搏斗的经历。
伴随这一场暴雪，Percy James出发前去寻找自己多年来一直陷入困境的母亲，Carletta。Percy不得不学会自己照顾自己和母亲，一个连自己女儿都不曾怎么了解的女人。担心Carletta身染毒瘾，而无法在这场暴风雪中幸存。Percy赶往Shelton Potter 在密歇根北部森林深处的小屋。一次无伤大雅的犯罪，如同这位手无缚鸡之力的人一样，Shelton自己生活做饭，沉浸在自己老伙计一条拉布拉多犬离世的悲痛中。
但当Percy抵达到这里，却没有任何Carletta的踪迹。翻遍屋子内外，她发现Shelton和他的女友正在吸食毒品中，而一个正在啼哭的女婴被丢弃在楼下的冰冷的房间内。当女婴的小手抓住Percy的手指时，她知道自己必须挽救这个女婴，瞬间作出的另一个决定，使她陷入了一场必须躲过Shelton，和这两位瘾君子抢夺回孩子的危险的境地。
明白自己和孩子不能独自面对这场危险的情况，Percy寻求Carletta的前任丈夫Portis Dale的帮助，这是一位让她觉得最为接近于自己父亲的人。随着暴风雪的来临，和一场即将爆发的暴力事件，Percy将不得不面对母亲痛苦的本质，发现更多与自己命运有着千丝万缕的，和自己决意要保护的这个女婴，更为紧密关联的关系。
蕴含着文化和地域性色彩的这部小说，描述了在密歇根州北部虚构小说中的卡特勒山，一个意志坚定的女孩。《甜美的女孩》是一部探索勇气，奉献，和充斥着黑色幽默，有着温婉，且充满希望的故事。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况： “A riveting novel… far, far funnier than it has any right to be. If you’re a fan of Charles Portis and Denis Johnson—and if you’re not, then you should be—then this book is exactly what you’ve been wanting, what you’ve been waiting for.”— Brock Clarke, author of The Happiest People in the World
“There’s a big old neon heart pulsing on every page of Sweetgirl, like the sign to a bar you can’t help but enter. I felt thrilled and shocked, and I couldn’t stop turning the pages. Travis Mulhauser is a writer to be reckoned with.”--Lindsay Hunter, author of Ugly Girls and Don’t Kiss Me
With the heart, daring, and evocative atmosphere of Winter’s Bone and True Grit, and driven by the raw, whip-smart voice of Percy James, a blistering debut about a fearless sixteen-year old girl whose search for her missing mother leads to an unexpected discovery, and a life or death struggle in the harsh frozen landscape of the Upper Midwest.
About the Author/作者介绍： Travis Mulhauser is from Petoskey, Michigan. He lives currently in Durham, North Carolina with his wife and two children and earned his MFA from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
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