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 president of PEN International, she currently lives in Mexico City. · It might be tempting to read this novel merely as an exemplar of the neo-Southern grotesque — a lush, humid tale of rural hard-lucks made all the more strange by the incongruous beauty of Clement’s lyric prose — but Gun Love is neither swampy freak show nor poverty porn. Rather it’s a fable of modern American violence, and the resilience it takes to survive a childhood in its shadow.4/4(10). 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().
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. Gun Love by Jennifer Clement has an overall rating of Rave based on 10 book reviews. -Southern grotesque — a lush, humid tale of rural hard-lucks made all the more strange by the incongruous beauty of Clement's lyric prose — but Gun Love is neither swampy freak show nor poverty porn. Rather it's a fable of modern American violence. 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. © Jennifer Clement (P) Random House Audio.
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 president of PEN International, she currently lives in Mexico City. Jennifer Clement’s Gun Love is a beautiful novel. The writing is so lovely that, at times, it seems the author is observing the world through a peephole that foregrounds and magnifies every minute object. A tired person is described as being unable to make “my fist,” and a woman’s love interest is described as “the song inside her body.”. 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.
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