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Don't Stop Snowing

by Gabriel Bump

A cousin’s life becomes a new point of reference

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A cousin’s life becomes a new point of reference

After graduate school, David arrives in snowy Buffalo hoping a change of place—and time with his cousin Flip—might help him gain perspective. Instead, Flip’s own instability draws David into new responsibilities, including taking on parts of his cousin’s working life. Their intertwined circumstances bring the novel’s concerns with family inheritance, troubled selves, and the ways people try to care for one another into focus. The snowbound setting is part of David’s changing view of the world, as the prospect of living with difficulty shifts from something to escape to something he can accept.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in contemporary fiction centered on family ties and friendship.
  • Readers who enjoy stories about mental and emotional struggles, caregiving, and changing circumstances.
  • Readers drawn to novels set in snowy Buffalo.

Themes

Family inheritance and parental influenceFriendship and caregivingMental and emotional struggleFinding perspective through change

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Book overview

A deeply personal and funny novel from the winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award, about embracing one's own troubled self, demons and all. Perfect for readers of Percival Everett, Kevin Wilson, and Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans.

Fresh out of grad school in Michigan, on the brink of despair, directionless, David worries his parents. They don't know how to heal him. His doctor suggests that he needs to gain some perspective, and possibly a relocation would help. Maybe there is such a thing as a geographical cure?

Snowy, grey Buffalo is not the first place that comes to mind when you think of a curative place, but maybe time with his cousin Flip will help David to forget his own troubled past. But as it turns out, Flip's life and state of mind is even unsteadier than his own. Suddenly enlisted to take care of his cousin and to even fill in for him at his job, David falls into a new life and a new way of seeing the world. A world where, come to think of it, he doesn't mind the snow.

Don't Stop Snowing is a fresh and honest--and funny--story of the struggles we all face as we realize that we don't just inherit eye, hair, and skin color, but also the complicated psyches of our parents.
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