Jaimy Gordon

L'ultimo giorno di gloria (2010)

The characters at first came across as racetrack stereotypes -- the naive girl; the wise, superstitious black groom -- and I had trouble keeping the different horses straight. Later in the book, though, the story started to come together, and the plot took on urgency. The character of Two-Tie hol...

Lord of Misrule (2010)

Likes: I picked this book because it focused on such a small and overlooked niche of down-and-out horse racing in the pan handle of West Virginia around the 1970s. Who else has done that? I liked that there was a variety of people with a wide range of personalities that were forced to interact in...

Bogeywoman (1999)