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    Boonville: A Novel

    By Robert Mailer Anderson

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    “A brilliant new voice—twitchy, corny, sly, cackling and sad, but most of all, racing with vitality and goosing you to keep up. Boonville is the creepy and hilarious coming-of-age story the territory deserves—not your parents’ Vineland, but your own.” — Jonathan Lethem

    Boonville is the story of John Gibson, the reluctant heir of an alcoholic grandmother who fled the normalcy of her own “American family” to live in the redwoods-surrounded northern California hole in the wall town of Boonville where she is known as the “squirrel lady.” In her will, she leaves John her decrepit cabin. Needing a change from the pastel and air-conditioned life in Miami, John ditches his girlfriend and condo and heads to Boonville to claim his inheritance. He soon discovers it is not the hippie, free-loving town he assumed it was, and the locals—with the exception of Sarah McKay, a commune-reared "hippie by association"—are not happy to see a new face, especially a handsome outsider.

    John and Sarah are two young people actively searching for self and community in a small town of misfits, rednecks, and counter-culture burnouts. Boonville is the darkly comic tale of how they try to reassemble the facts of heredity, sexuality, personal expression, love, death, the possibility of an existence without God, and what happens whey they choose to make art from their lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 25, 2012
    ISBN9780062034427
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    Boonville: A Novel
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    Robert Mailer Anderson

    Robert Mailer Anderson is a writer, producer, activist, and 9th generation Californio. He is also the author of the novel "Boonville," co-writer/producer of the films "Windows on the World" and "Pig Hunt," the play "The Death of Teddy Ballgame," and has been a contributor to The Anderson Valley Advertiser for 40 years, among other publications. He is a board member of PEN Oakland, the advisory board of Los Cenzontles, and was appointed by Governor Newsom to the California Humanities Board in 2020. As a music producer, he has been nominated for three Grammy Awards and won two NAACP Image Awards. He was the 2013 Colonial Standard Bearer for the Selkirk Common Ride and received the San Francisco Arts Medallion in 2016.

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    • 3/5
      A well worked-over first novel: high-octane energy and exuberance, metastasized metaphors, but mostly a 200 page manrant against all things holy of the 60s, 70s, 80s. Anderson details hippy childmolesters, back-to-earth pig grunters, and road-bar, flat-line, low lifers.

      Earlier American cultures fare no better: 50s best-gen, pent up parents along with Anderson's prior-life, Miami suburban marketeer, missionary-postion existence.

      He seems to have purged himself with his one novel and moved on to better things as an apparent richguy, a fund raiser for Obama, and an Opera Board member.

      Worth the read for non-stop references to the artifacts of the era.
    • 5/5
      Travel to Boonville with John Gibson & meet all the quirky characters who call the small California town home. John inherits his eccentric Grandmother Sarah's home after her passing away. Looking for a change he decides to move to this town that's known for having it's own odd language. If you're looking for something a little different, something not so mainstream, then I highly suggest giving Boonville a chance! Filled with quirky, eccentric characters, a memorable plot filled with twists ...more Travel to Boonville with John Gibson & meet all the quirky characters who call the small California town home. John inherits his eccentric Grandmother Sarah's home after her passing away. Looking for a change he decides to move to this town that's known for having it's own odd language. If you're looking for something a little different, something not so mainstream, then I highly suggest giving Boonville a chance! Filled with quirky, eccentric characters, a memorable plot filled with twists & turns, it will surely keep you entertained & laughing along the way. Though I will say it does have some adult behavior in it, so I would not recommend it for anyone underage or those easily offended. That being said Boonville was an entertaining read filled with humor, love, life & choices.
    • 3/5
      If you enjoyed T.C. Boyle's Drop City or All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki you will probably really enjoy this book as well...a hippie trilogy.