num_pages: 428
description: If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head. As formative events go, nothing else comes close. With these words Edgar Mint, half-Apache and mostly orphaned, makes his unshakable claim on our attention. In the course of Brady Udall’s high-spirited, inexhaustibly inventive novel, Edgar survives not just this bizarre accident, but a hellish boarding school for Native American orphans, a well-meaning but wildly dysfunctional Mormon foster-family, and the loss of most of the illusions that are supposed to make life bearable. What persists is Edgar’s innate goodness, his belief in the redeeming power of language, and his determination to find and forgive the man who almost killed him. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint is a miracle of storytelling, bursting with heartache and hilarity and inhabited by characters as outsized as the landscape of the American West.
language: English
title: The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
titlecomplete: The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
genres: Literature, Young Adult, Literary Fiction, Novels, Book Club, Coming Of Age, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 7253
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Spur Award
category: Best Novel of the West, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa
publisher: Vintage