Goat Mountain

By David Vann Harper, $25.99, 240 pages David Vann’s Goat Mountain asks the reader to confront killing animals and each other. The eleven year-old narrator, takes the reader on a journey to Goat Mountain, the family’s hunting grounds for generations. The boy is...

“In the old days, his mother told him, people used to take pieces of coal and use them to make eyes. But there wasn’t any coal in George’s house. So he found two buttons and brought them outside with the scarf and the carrot.”

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