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Coyote

Winner of the 2013 NOS Book Contest.

A daughter disappears in the middle of the night. What happens in the aftermath of this tragedy — after the search is abandoned, after the TV crews move on to cover the latest horrific incident — is the story of Coyote. There is a marriage and a detective. There is a storm, a talk show host, and a roasted boar. People are murdered and things are hidden. Coyotes skulk in the woods, a man stands by the fence, and a tale emerges within this familiar landscape of the violent unknown.

"Like a modern-day Poe, [Winnette] has fashioned a narrator whose pull on the reader’s sympathy gradually fades as she recounts the aftermath of her daughter’s mysterious disappearance... .Winnette’s deeply affecting story is hard to put down and even harder to forget.”

—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Coyote has a strong and inviting voice and that voice wraps around a dark story, a contemporary story, and one that has its own velocity and fragmentation built in. I found myself swept along in it and impacted by its delicate/bleak movement.”

—Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, and Willful Creatures

"While there’s a contemporary urgency to Winnette’s novel, it’s the small details (and how they’re revealed) that give this story its considerable sting."

—Kirkus Reviews

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 96
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781934254561
  • Genres
  • fiction, novella, crime, mystery, adult, contemporary
  • Release date
  • 2015