![]() When fresh-from-jail Nate comes to take Polly from in front of her school, she is shy, with her hair hanging in her face to hide from the world. ![]() Along with Polly’s teddy bear, who she manipulates like a puppet to express her hidden nature, the two of them take a journey that leads them from the cities to the high desert, and brings them together in ways both beautiful and twisted. My first novel She Rides Shotgun is Paper Moon with a body count, a road novel in which shy eleven-year-old Polly and her recently sprung father Nate drive through Southern California while trying to escape a death sentence placed on them by a white power prison gang. In his own words, here is Jordan Harper's Book Notes music playlist for his debut novel She Rides Shotgun: It's both a dark, original take on the chase novel and a strangely touching portrait of a father-daughter relationship framed in barbed wire." "From its bravura prologue to its immensely satisfying ending, this first novel comes out with guns blazing and shoots the chambers dry. Jordan Harper's novel She Rides Shotgun is a compelling, dark, and intriguing debut. ![]() Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Jesmyn Ward, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others. ![]() Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Lauren Groff, T.C. ![]() In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. ![]()
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