· With Eli come the guns of the title, and soon Pearl’s world is turned inside out. Throughout the novel, Clement maintains the intoxicating potency of Author: Sandra Newman. In her excellent fifth novel, Clement (Prays for the Stolen) tackles homelessness, America’s love affair with guns, and the economic despair of folks living on the dark edge of society. Clement’s Gun Love examines a stark reality where poverty and guns coexist. She captures the hardships of a mother and daughter trying to elude the violence lurking around them. Sorrow and tragedy, however, cannot crush Pearl’s spirit.4/5().
"Gun Love," Jennifer Clement (Hogarth). "Clement turns her hypnotic pen to the story of America's love affair with guns ― specifically, a nine-year-old girl and her mother, who live in a trailer park in central Florida. Their impoverished but happy life is disrupted by the mother's romance with a. Written in a gorgeous lyric all its own, Gun Love is the story of a tough but optimistic young woman growing up in contemporary America, in the midst of its harrowing love affair with firearms. Random House Audio Women's Fiction Fiction Audiobooks Jennifer Clement Imani Parks. About Jennifer Clement. Jennifer Clement is the author of multiple books, including Widow Basquiat and Gun Love. She was awarded the NEA Fellowship for Literature and the Sara Curry Humanitarian Award for Prayers for the Stolen.
The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Clement, Jennifer. Gun Love. New York: Penguin Random House, The novel is told in first-person past from the perspective of Pearl, the year-old narrator. It is broken up into three distinct parts. The first section depicts Pearl’s life with her mother, Margot. In her excellent fifth novel, Clement (Prays for the Stolen) tackles homelessness, America’s love affair with guns, and the economic despair of folks living on the dark edge of society. Gun Love by Jennifer Clement is the story of a mother and daughter. Single mother Margot, is raising fourteen-year-old Pearl in a car in a Florida mobile home park. Pearl's “bedroom” is the front seat and Margot resides in the backseat. The old Mercury sits on land that borders a dump.
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