Cover of Boonville

Boonville

Surrounded by misfits, rednecks, and counterculture burnouts, John Gibson—the reluctant heir of an alcoholic grandmother—and Sarah McKay—a commune-reared "hippie-by-association"—search for self and community in the hole-of-a-town Boonville. As they try to assemble from the late-twentieth-century jumble of life the facts of sexuality, love, and death, and face the possibility of an existence without God, John and Sarah learn what happens when they dare to try to make art from their lives.

Genre
humor
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 272 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Boonville? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Boonville. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Two Years, No Rain Shares fiction, California
  2. In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09 Shares California
  3. Take One Candle Light a Room Shares fiction, California
  4. Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America

“People who read Boonville tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Fup
  2. Heart Mountain
  3. Hole in the Sky: A Memoir
  4. Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America

“If you want more of the same (humor), start with these.”

  1. CliffsNotes CSET: Multiple Subjects with CD-ROM, 3rd Edition
  2. The Game Don't Love Nobody
  3. Where Fires Once Burned
  4. The Wayward Bus

“If it was the California that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Mule
  2. Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe
  3. The Ruins of California
  4. There Will Never Be Another You: A Novel

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. The Gospel of the Knife
  2. Jayber Crow
  3. Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House
  4. Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History