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Title: Sweetgirl

Author: Travis Mulhauser

Narrator: Cassandra Morris, Macleod Andrews

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-16

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A tense cat-and-mouse game and a brilliantly realised story of hope in a seemingly hopeless place.

Percy is 16 and used to her mama disappointing her. But this time her mama's been gone for nine days, and she's been seen up at Shelton Potter's farmhouse. Which can only mean she's strung out on meth again, and who knows when she'll be back.

A blizzard rolls in, and Percy jumps in her pickup and sets off for the farmhouse. She finds Shelton and a woman passed out on the floor, sleeping off the latest binge. But no sign of her mama.

Percy heads upstairs and finds a neglected baby girl in urgent need of care and attention. Percy knows she has no choice. She has to take the baby and get her to a hospital as soon as she can.

But the blizzard shows no sign of stopping, and soon her pickup is snowed in. Now she's on foot, and before long two-bit criminal Shelton wakes up and heads out with four of his associates, on the hunt for whoever has taken the baby....

Taut, darkly humorous and told in Percy's unflinching voice, Sweetgirl is a moving exploration of courage and sacrifice that is horrifying, tender, and hopeful.

Critic Reviews:

"Compulsively readable...finish the first chapter and you will be hooked." (Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs and Beneath the Bonfire)

"There's a big old neon heart pulsing on every page of Sweetgirl, like the sign to a bar you can't help but enter. I couldn't stop turning the pages." (Lindsay Hunter, author of Ugly Girls and Don't Kiss Me)

"If you're a fan of Charles Portis and Denis Johnson this book is exactly what you've been waiting for." (Brock Clarke, author of The Happiest People in the World)

"Gritty, compelling...Mulhauser depicts his people and their landscape with uncompromising fidelity." (Ron Rash, author of Above the Waterfall)

"This novel comes on like the blizzard at its centre, and leaves you dazzled and dazed not only by how much Travis Mulhauser knows, but how deeply he cares." (Michael Parker, author of All I Have in This World)

Members Reviews:

Engaging story, good characters, realistic setting

This is a thoroughly engaging and sometimes gritty story about a teenage girl whose family life has forced her to grow up too soon. Most of it is narrated in the first person by the main character, Percy James, although in a few chapters the action shifts to one of the other characters in the third person. Although vivid and at a few turns graphic, the novel achieves realism without resorting to graphic sexual themes or excessive profanity. It is a smoothly flowing, engaging and very readable novel.

Starting early in the book, Percy finds herself presented with difficult choices, and exhibits an almost unrealistic maturity. All of the main characters are well drawn, but although it was quite easy to engage with both the story and the Percy herself, I would have to say in retrospect that this is probably the closest thing I found to a flaw in this book. The 16-year-old teen is actually, by her actions and compassion, the most adult character in the novel, and definitely not a typical 16-year-old.

As I read, I found myself rooting for Percy as she slogged through a northern Michigan winter with a small baby in tow.