<div><p><i>Trampoline,</i> a debut novel by Robert Gipe, is set in the coalfields of Kentucky. Its narrator is Dawn Jewell, a teenager who recounts the turbulent time when her grandmother Cora led her into a fight to stop a mountaintop removal coal mine. Dawn’s father, Delbert, is dead, killed in the mines, leaving her mother, Tricia, a grieving drunk.<i>Trampoline</i> follows Dawn as she decides whether to save a mountain or save herself; be ruled by love or ruled by anger; remain in the land of her birth or run for her life.<br><br><i>Trampoline</i> includes more than two hundred drawings that punctuate the narrative in a unique, dramatic, and moving way and amplify Dawn’s telling of her story.</p></div>