num_pages: 224
description: Ivan E. Coyote is one of North America’s most beguiling storytellers and the author of three story collections, including Loose End, which was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction in 2006. Bow Grip, Coyote’s first novel, is a breathtaking story about love and loneliness; in it, a good-hearted, small-town mechanic struggles to deal with a wife who has left him for another woman until a used cello and an acquaintance’s suicide attempt compel him to make some changes in his life. With quiet authority, Bow Grip is about one man’s true rite of passage—trying to keep the ghosts of personal history at bay with a heart that’s as big as the endless prairie sky.
language: English
title: Bow Grip
titlecomplete: Bow Grip
genres: Queer, Literary Fiction, Novels, Transgender, LGBT, Gay, Fiction, Short Stories, Canada, Lesbian
ratings_count: 668
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: ReLit Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Ferro-Grumley Award
category: Women's Fiction
publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press