A review by laudateluna
Gun Love by Jennifer Clement

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

Jennifer Clements prose will find your heart and take deadly aim. and i am unsure if it's saying something complex about guns, violence, gender, ableism and class. Clements can weave together leitmotifs in brilliant ways to make a bleak world seem true, but i am not of the usa-working class to question how much truth her story covers. while there's alluring to the absolute inhumane condition poverty in the usa causes and how it's classist healthcare together with the unrelenting racist core of life can make a whole culture obsess over weapons to use for solution. ultimately it reads a bit superficial to me. 
gun love is amazing and rightfully loved! Pearls story captures childhood in poverty so well. while you know it's not good or okay, if there is no other way -- there is always love of community to relish in. even when the trailer park becomes a fucked up crime scene, Clements won't let you forget about the love.