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Jewelweed: A Novel
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From the acclaimed author of Driftless, “a novel of forgiveness, a generous ode to the spirit’s indefatigable longing for love” (Minneapolis Star Tribune).
When David Rhodes burst onto the American literary scene in the 1970s, he was hailed as “a brilliant visionary” (John Gardner) and compared to Sherwood Anderson and Marilynne Robinson. In Driftless, his “most accomplished work yet” (Joseph Kanon), Rhodes brought Words, WI, to life in a way that resonated with readers across the country. Now with Jewelweed, this beloved author returns to the same out-of-the-way hamlet and introduces a cast of characters who all find themselves charged with overcoming the burdens left by the past, sometimes with the help of peach preserves or pie.
After serving time for a dubious conviction, Blake Bookchester is paroled and returns home. The story of Blake’s hometown is one of challenge, change, and redemption, of outsiders and of limitations, and simultaneously one of supernatural happenings and of great love. Each of Rhodes’s characters—flawed, deeply human, and ultimately universal—approach the future with a combination of hope and trepidation, increasingly mindful of the importance of community to their individual lives. Rich with a sense of empathy and wonder, Jewelweed offers a vision in which the ordinary becomes mythical.
 
“I liked Driftless, but his emotionally rich new novel, Jewelweed, a sequel of sorts, is even better. The novel emits frequent solar flares of surprise and wonder.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer 
“[A] rhapsodic, many-faceted novel of profound dilemmas, survival, and gratitude . . . [a] refulgent hymn to the earth, ‘psychic strength,’ hard work, integrity, and love.”—Booklist (starred review)
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When David Rhodes burst onto the American literary scene in the 1970s, he was hailed as “a brilliant visionary” (John Gardner) and compared to Sherwood Anderson and Marilynne Robinson. In Driftless, his “most accomplished work yet” (Joseph Kanon), Rhodes brought Words, WI, to life in a way that resonated with readers across the country. Now with Jewelweed, this beloved author returns to the same out-of-the-way hamlet and introduces a cast of characters who all find themselves charged with overcoming the burdens left by the past, sometimes with the help of peach preserves or pie.
After serving time for a dubious conviction, Blake Bookchester is paroled and returns home. The story of Blake’s hometown is one of challenge, change, and redemption, of outsiders and of limitations, and simultaneously one of supernatural happenings and of great love. Each of Rhodes’s characters—flawed, deeply human, and ultimately universal—approach the future with a combination of hope and trepidation, increasingly mindful of the importance of community to their individual lives. Rich with a sense of empathy and wonder, Jewelweed offers a vision in which the ordinary becomes mythical.
 
“I liked Driftless, but his emotionally rich new novel, Jewelweed, a sequel of sorts, is even better. The novel emits frequent solar flares of surprise and wonder.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer 
“[A] rhapsodic, many-faceted novel of profound dilemmas, survival, and gratitude . . . [a] refulgent hymn to the earth, ‘psychic strength,’ hard work, integrity, and love.”—Booklist (starred review)
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        "[A] rhapsodic, many-faceted novel of profound dilemmas, survival, and gratitude.... Rhodes portrays his smart, searching, kind characters with extraordinary dimension as each wrestles with what it means to be good and do good."

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      • source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
      • content: Jewelweed is a novel of forgiveness, a generous ode to the spirit's indefatigable longing for love."
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      • source: Library Journal
      • content: "Brave and inspiring.... Rhodes also has important things to say about humble, hardworking Americans at odds with contemporary American culture, which he finds predatory, corporate, and soulless. An impressive and emotionally gratifying novel; highly recommended for fans of literary fiction."
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      • source: Chicago Tribune Printers Row Journal
      • content: "Masterful storytelling.... The characters in Driftless and Jewelweed are rendered with such care and precision that this little known region of the Midwest becomes dazzlingly alive. At the same time, Rhodes' decision to publish again marks a welcome return of a master storyteller of real people who live in our small towns."
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      • source: Publishers Weekly
      • content: "A benevolent sort of rural American magical realism.... profound."
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      • source: Cleveland Plain Dealer
      • content: “I liked Driftless, but his emotionally rich new novel, Jewelweed, a sequel of sorts, is even better. The novel emits frequent solar flares of surprise and wonder."
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      • source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
      • content: "A master of nuance, Rhodes picks up on those 'inaudible rhythms' that drive human actions: fear, regret, friendship, yearning, and a desire for forgiveness."
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      • source: Wisconsin State Journal
      • content: “[A] deeply moving meditation on the resonance of each individual life on a small Wisconsin town."
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      • source: Iowa Press-Citizen
      • content: Jewelweed is another book that all Iowa should read."
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      • source: Sheryl Cotleur, Copperfield's Books
      • content: “A damn fine novel--one of the best kinds--where ordinary people living ordinary lives are drawn by the deft and lyrical touch of the author in such an achingly rich way, one quietly marvels."
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      • source: Mark LaFramboise, Politics & Prose Bookstore
      • content: “Rhodes describes the natural world and his characters' inner lives with equal passion, creating an ensemble as natural to its landscape as the trees. Jewelweed is a remarkable piece of storytelling, soul-felt and deeply moving."
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      • source: Jack Hannert, Brilliant Books
      • content: “David Rhodes takes seemingly mundane events, and makes them magic. The everyday is made spectacular through his telling."
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      • source: Emily Crowe, The Odyssey Bookshop
      • content: “From philosophical prison inmates to childhood-haunted truckers, Rhodes's mélange of characters feels so real, you'd swear you lived among them."
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      • source: Paul Ingram, Prairie Lights Books
      • content: “With Jewelweed, David Rhodes has once more produced a moving, deeply thoughtful novel, of poor people doing difficult things, often against their best interests. He is the same writer, maybe better, as the author of Driftless."
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        February 18, 2013
        There’s a benevolent sort of rural American magical realism in Rhodes’s latest ensemble novel, set in the Driftless region of southeast Wisconsin, where recently paroled Blake Bookchester returns from prison after serving over 10 years for drug trafficking. In the oddly isolated town of Words, Wis., Blake haltingly reintegrates himself into a vividly real landscape, but one that is peopled by a cast of characters too thoughtful to be believed. There’s his unacknowledged son, Ivan, a 10-year-old whose profound reasoning gives him wisdom far beyond elementary school, and Ivan’s best friend August Helm, a fifth-grader with a precocious vocabulary and a propensity for awkward exclamations too mannered for even a “gifted” child. Blake’s father, Nate, is a truck-driving epicure struggling with his connection to his just-released son and the deep romantic feelings he has harbored for a distant cousin. Other residents of the town include a pastor with a crisis of faith, a sickly teenage boy, and a turbulent but determined single mother. Words is a place where small actions unfold slowly, with Rhodes sometimes bearing down too hard to make the point that actions and words of this size and simplicity have profound redemptive qualities. Agent: Lois Wallace, Wallace Literary Agency.

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        May 1, 2013

        At the center of this brave and inspiring new novel is Blake Bookchester, imprisoned as the story opens, though the charges against him are questionable. Aided by friends and neighbors in the small town of Words, WI--the setting of Rhodes's acclaimed 2008 novel, Driftless--the thoughtful and fundamentally decent Blake experiences a rebirth and regeneration. The novel is filled with vibrant, skillfully drawn characters whose lives will surprise readers. Winnie, the town pastor, gives up her ministry to look for better ways to pray, while the precocious young August has the wisdom of a sage. Rhodes also has important things to say about humble, hardworking Americans at odds with contemporary American culture, which he finds predatory, corporate, and soulless. VERDICT An impressive and emotionally gratifying novel; highly recommended for fans of literary fiction.--Patrick Sullivan, Manchester Community Coll., CT

        Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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        Rhodes continues the story of Words, Wisconsin, last visited in Driftless (2008), in this rhapsodic, many-faceted novel of profound dilemmas, survival, and gratitude. Happily married Reverend Winnie Helm is glad that her brainy, sensitive son, August, who has a pet bat named Milton, has finally made a friend, Ivan, the misfit son of Danielle, who struggles alone to support him. Amy, married to a wealthy contractor and running a household embracing four generations, needs help caring for her son, Kevin, who has cystic fibrosis. Nate, a truck driver with a passion for fresh, local food, worries about his son, Blake, who is finally getting out of prison. And everyone wonders about the mysterious Wild Boy. Rhodes portrays his smart, searching, kind characters with extraordinary dimension as each wrestles with what it means to be good and do good. As Winnie questions the rigidity of the church, Blake reads Spinoza, and Danielle faces her fears, neighbors come together in new configurations of understanding and giving. And all find an antidote to sorrow and pain in nature, from the teeming life of a pond to the splendor of jewelweed, a wildflower with a name that perfectly encapsulates Rhodes' vision of the glory of the ordinary in this refulgent hymn to the earth, psychic strength, hard work, integrity, and love.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)

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When David Rhodes burst onto the American literary scene in the 1970s, he was hailed as “a brilliant visionary” (John Gardner) and compared to Sherwood Anderson and Marilynne Robinson. In Driftless, his “most accomplished work yet” (Joseph Kanon), Rhodes brought Words, WI, to life in a way that resonated with readers across the country. Now with Jewelweed, this beloved author returns to the same out-of-the-way hamlet and introduces a cast of characters who all find themselves charged with overcoming the burdens left by the past, sometimes with the help of peach preserves or pie.
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