A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do: A Novel - Hardcover

Fromm, Pete

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1640091777 ISBN 13: 9781640091771

Verlag: Counterpoint, 2019

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Praise for A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do

An Amazon Top Ten Book of May 2019

"The novel follows Taz's first two years of fatherhood, a job this self-employed carpenter does not know how to do . . . Fromm's novel is full of joy, sorrow and new beginnings." --Barbara Theroux, The Missoulian

"Pete Fromm excels at showing how everyday people cope with tragedy and endure what they cannot evade. A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do is a quietly elegant novel about working through grief and loss by putting one foot in front of the other and about letting people into your broken places to comfort and to heal you." --Vannessa Cronin, Omnivoracious, A Best Book of the Month

"A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do feels like a comedic novel of young parenthood . . . Their situation seems idyllic, but Fromm has another story to tell: of resilience in the face of incomprehensible tragedy . . . This bittersweet novel of young love turning tragic follows a widower and his newborn forging a life among friends and memories." --Cheryl Krocker McKeon, Shelf Awareness

"[A Job You Mostly Won't Know How To Do] beautifully captures people who, isolated by land and by their actions, end up building a life that is both unexpected and brave." --Inlander

"The much-lauded [Pete Fromm] taps into the highs and lows of parenthood. First-time father and recent widower Taz struggles to balance work, finances and childrearing amid a swathe of unpredictable challenges, but with every challenge comes a great reward." --Chris Melville, Idaho Mountain Express

"In this heart-wrenching but hopeful novel by Pete Fromm, a hapless husband needs (and fortunately gets) plenty of help raising his daughter when his wife dies during childbirth." --Erin Kodicek, Business Insider

"A tender tale of loss and fatherhood, Pete Fromm's A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do is a beautiful story about what happens when your village comes to the rescue and gives you a second chance at happiness." --Chika Gujarathi, BookPage

"Pulls at the heart strings with the poignant tale of a father, who just having lost his wife in childbirth, must quickly learn to raise his infant daughter, Midge, alone . . . Full of gorgeous descriptions of the wild landscape of Montana, Fromm's novel draws the reader in with a colorful cast of characters who bring hope and light to Taz's life again. Fans of emotional family dramas will find much to love." --Publishers Weekly

"A widowed father's recovery from grief forms the framework of Fromm's touching novel . . . Fromm eschews suspense in favor of a close study of the messy process of rebuilding a life. He pays loving attention to the details of Taz's work and to the place that is as vital to him as any human being. A compassionate and unsentimental look at one confused young man's path through loss." --Kirkus Reviews

"This deeply emotional story is in some ways a simple one of death, birth, grieving, and a long, slow climb toward recovery . . . The best parts are simply magical as Fromm renders indelible images with heartbreaking precision in beautiful, lyrical prose." ―Booklist

"A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do reminds us of the light, the goodness of people, the kindness of strangers, and how the unlucky aren't always lost. They can be lucky again. Fromm is an important and much-needed writer. I can't recommend this one enough." --Willy Vlautin, author of Don't Skip Out on Me

"Once again, Fromm writes masterfully about the tribulations of everyday people in the modern American West. A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do is at once a heart-wrenching love story, a gritty tale of surviving irredeemable loss, and a poignant meditation on fatherhood." --Jonathan Evison, author of Lawn Boy

"Oh my God. A brave beauty of a book, A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do is about how heartbreaking tragedy can actually burnish us to a new shine we never could have imagined. About the grace of friends and family, the true depth and patience of love, and the impossible privilege of what it means to be a father, this novel simply glows." --Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You

"Fromm is an artist, sifting through all the detail of the daily world to find the beautiful revealed. His characters are another life you've lived, felt that closely. Taz is overwhelmed in this novel but also enriched. The miracle of hanging a door correctly, of making it through the first year without his daughter's mother, of getting through a single day, finding resilience and a more expansive life than tragedy promised. There are no shortcuts here, everything earned." --David Vann, author of Aquarium

"This beautiful, mighty book is a workout for the heart; it breaks and rebuilds and strengthens and invigorates. I came away from it with that main muscle expanded in my breast. Superb." --Niall Griffiths, author of A Great Big Shining Star

"I probably spent only six hours completing this book, five of which were in a single sitting. I could place myself, my sister, my friend into the shoes of Taz or Elmo, and it seemed way too real. The two-year span of the book at first seemed daunting, but as I read, each new day for Taz and Midge was something I wanted to explore--I was looking forward to their future far more than Taz. The story flows so seamlessly, never missing a beat, and I just could not put it down." --Kasey Kane, Country Bookshelf (Bozeman, MT)

"Marnie and Taz have it all--they love, laugh, and work together, sneak off to swim at their secret spot, and now they are starting a family. But Marnie dies in childbirth, leaving Taz to cope with his incredible loss . . . and his new baby daughter. Following Taz's sometimes bumbling first two years as a father, I found myself laughing and crying on the same page. Pete Fromm writes so beautifully about the confusing mix of grief and love, and what being a family really means." --Wendy Blake, Country Bookshelf (Bozeman, MT)

Praise for The Names of the Stars

Winner of Honor Book for the 2016 Montana Book Award

"A vivid memoir." --Sierra Club Magazine

"Fromm is not just 'promising, ' he's flat-out good." --Men's Journal

"[Fromm is] an excellent observer of the woods and wildlife around him, but he's perhaps even better at chronicling the feeling of being alone in the wilderness . . . His humor and honesty about the push and pull between solitude and togetherness and the mysterious way that both experiences magnify the other, make Stars a compelling walk through the woods." --The Montana Standard

"The Names of the Stars is a beautiful tribute to that urgent, visceral feeling that means we are still alive in this wild, wild world. This book will be savored by all those who cannot live without wild things." --Montana Quarterly

"[The Names of the Stars] is both triumphant and melancholy, the realization that you might be able to have everything you want, but not always at the same time. The Names of the Stars is a coming-of-age book for adults; it is a tightrope walk between holding on to who you are and letting go a little for something you love even more." --Kenyon Review

"Pete Fromm may crave solitude but he's delightful company on the page. The Names of the Stars is an inspiring book brimming with wilderness adventures and executed with a pleasing mix of action, observation and rumination." --Lively Times

"Although Pete Fromm's new memoir, The Names of the Stars, is set in a place familiar to the author ― a burlychunk of Montana wilderness ― its narrative captures him at a point in life that contrasts with the youthful whimsy of his only other memoir, Indian Creek Chronicles. . . . [Fromm] has sharpened his craft as a writer" --Flathead Beacon

"More than a wilderness adventure . . . Fromm's easy pose is akin to other great outdoor writers, particularly John Gierach." --Hungry Horse News

"Pete Fromm may crave solitude but he's delightful company on the page. The Names of the Stars is an inspiring book brimming with wilderness adventures and executed with a pleasing mix of action, observation and rumination. In Fromm's hands, a violent rainstorm reads like a transcendent gift and a face-to-face bear encounter like good comedy. I finished his memoir admiring not only his lucid prose but the wild life he's chosen." --Jim Lynch, author of Before the Wind

"With The Names of the Stars, Pete Fromm's tough, supple, and lyrical prose shows, once again, the depth of his wisdom and the size of his heart. As a reflection on the natural world, which seems so remote to so many of us, there is much to learn; as an honest memoir of a man at the plumb-center of his life, there is much to recognize. Fromm's return from a Life in the Wilds has in no way tamed his talent." --Lance Weller, author of Wilderness

"Pete Fromm is a talent to watch." --Ivan Doig, author of Last Bus to Wisdom

"I read Pete Fromm with admiration for the vigor of his well-made writing and for his generous heart." ―Tom McGuane, author of Cloudbursts

"Pete Fromm's good work is our good fortune." --William Kittredge, author of The Next Rodeo

"Fromm's finely tuned reflections on this small but fully inhabited piece of the backwoods make this an adventure worth savoring." --Kirkus Reviews

Praise for If Not For This

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Literary Award

"There is wisdom and tenacity and sass in this book. There is such candor and such sadness. There is so much love. Sooner or later, the reader will realize that the story of Dalt and Maddy has a great deal in common with his or her own life." --Seattle Times

"If Not for This is, at its core, a story about gravity. It asks unnerving questions about mortality and resilience, and answers them with the example of one couple's devotion." --Shelf Awareness

"This funny, blunt and heartbreaking book, is a love story that shoots the rapids of life." --Bellingham Herald

"A deeply intimate portrait of a heartless illness colliding with a big love." --Missoula Independent

"What do you do when you get everything you most desire in this life, but getting through every day requires you to be a superhero? In Pete Fromm's smart, gorgeous, uplifting and heartbreaking new novel, If Not For This, you consider yourself damn lucky." --Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters

"If Not For This is a terrific novel, poignant as hell, but feisty, funny, and romantic, too. Pete Fromm is a powerful, lucid writer, a perfect guide to the unpredictable rivers and people of the interior West, to their deep channels and breathtaking turns." --Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins

"Here, brave and unabashed, is a novel about love, two sweet droll people who become a family, and then--brave and unabashed--real trouble magnifies everything. In If Not For This, Pete Fromm brings us a rich, deeply felt book, so full of kindness and kind people that it's an absolute phenomenon." --Ron Carlson, author of Return to Oakpine

"The brilliance of this novel shines through in the depiction of the love and struggle that exists between Dalton and Maddy and eventually their two children as we see it through Maddy's baffled and infuriated and grateful-but-not-happy-about-it eyes." --Big Sky Journal

"Fromm, four-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Literary Award, offers a stringent, emotionally astute work told in vivid, punchy, yet conversational prose." --Library Journal

"A stunning book not just about living with MS but also about love and nature and who we are deep down to our very souls." --BookNAround

"Fromm, who has always had a knack for plumbing the interior lives of eccentric characters, places readers in the head and heart of a funny, brave woman as she navigates this terrifying run down a brutal river. It's a story imbued with such honesty, courage and kindness--the qualities that turn ordinary people into heroes." --Lively Times

"This 'fairy tale with a tragedy' will make you want to stretch your muscles and feel their pull, to breathe in great gulps of air, and to love with the same kind of tenacious determination." --Fiction Writers Review

"Remarkable. Closely observed and heartbreakingly realistic, Maddy and Dalt's story feels true from the first page to the last." --Publishers Weekly

Praise for As Cool As I Am

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award

"One of the more startling beautiful and evocative tales of young womanhood . . . Fromm's voice-on loan to Lucy-is provocative, gritty, erotic, hilarious and genuine, and this book is a fresh breath of teen spirit." ―Ron Franscell, San Francisco Chronicle

"This novel packs an emotional punch that sneaks up from behind . . . Fromm creates an engrossing coming-of-age saga that cuts to the essence and shines." ―Seattle Times

"Pete Fromm [came] along with one of the more startlingly beautiful and evocative tales of young womanhood in As Cool As I Am" ―SFGate

"I used to think no one was cooler than me, until I read As Cool As I Am by Pete Fromm. I was humbled to mere mediocrity after meeting 14-year-old Lucy Diamond, a girl torn between growing up and hanging on to simpler days, when her breasts were nonexistent and her hormones hibernating. Over two years, we watch her conquer unknown territory--boys, love and sex--all the while dealing with a mom who's regressing to her teen years and a dad whose absences wreak emotional havoc on the family. Lucy's not cool in the sense that she wears all the right clothes; she's cool because she bravely faces hardships with honesty and aplomb. What could be cooler than that?" --Elle Girl

"This well-written and moving novel explores with sympathy and grace the sexual coming-of-age of a young woman who--as spunky and brave and foolish and foolhardy as she is--will remind some people of . . . Scout Finch in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird." --Nancy Pearl on KUOW Public Radio's "The Beat"

"[As Cool As I Am] is more than just a convincing portrait of a precocious Great Falls teen, all of it delivered in Lucy's first-person voice over two eventful years. Fromm's characters and imagery are so vivid that the book teems with life. Lucy, with her sharp wit and defiant buzz cut, seems like a fully formed character from the novel's first pages, like a real girl who tripped and fell into Fromm's typewriter." --Katie Millbauer, Seattle Weekly

"Fromm's story is infused with cold, isolated settings and lonely, dysfunctional families. Lucy's first-person...

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An Amazon Top Ten Book of May 2019

Five-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award Pete Fromm returns with his big-hearted new novel, a love story about family and resiliency and second chances. For young couple Taz and Marnie, their fixer-upper is the symbol of their new life together: a work in progress, the beginning of something grand, all the more so when they learn a baby is on her way. But the blueprint for the perfect life eludes Taz when Marnie dies in childbirth, plummeting the taciturn carpenter headfirst into the new, strange world of fatherhood alone, a landscape of contradictions, of great joy and sorrow. With a supporting cast as rich and compelling as the wild Montana landscape, the novel follows Taz's first two years as a father—a job no one can be fully prepared for.

With more than eleven books in over twenty years, Pete Fromm has become one of the West’s best literary legends. A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How To Do beautifully captures people who end up building a life that is both unexpected and brave.

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• Verlag: Counterpoint
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1640091777
• ISBN 13: 9781640091771
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336