A heart too big for this world. A life that changes everyone.
Life, and Death, and Giantsis an intriguing and alluring novel from beginning to end. The events are startling, sad, amusing, invigorating, and informative. Reading it is like meeting a family that you never knew existed and becoming close friends in a few weeks. Highly recommended. --Jane Smiley, author ofLuckyandA Thousand Acres
Gabriel Fisher was born an orphan, weighing eighteen pounds and measuring twenty-seven inches long. No one in Lakota, Wisconsin, knows what to make of him. He walks at eight months, communicates with animals, and seems to possess extraordinary athletic talent. But when the older brother who has been caring for him dies, Gabriel is taken in by his devout Amish grandparents who disapprove of all the attention and hide him away from the English world.
But its hard to hide forever when youre nearly eight feet tall. At seventeen, Gabriel is spotted working in a hay field by the local football coach. What happens next transforms not only Gabriels life but the lives of everyone he meets.
Life, and Death, and Giantsis a moving story of faith, family, buried secrets, and everyday miracles.
RON RINDO is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. He is the author of the novel
Breathing Lake Superiorand three short story collections. He lives in Pickett, Wisconsin.
Straddling the Wisconsin of the Amish and 'English,'Life, and Death, and Giantsassays the limitations and temptations of the godly and the worldly. Ron Rindo has fashioned a small-town novel as magical and moral as a tall tale. - - Stewart ONan, author ofSnow AngelsandSongs for the Missing
WithLife, and Death, and Giants, Ron Rindo has performed literary magic. This is a remarkable, profoundly moving novel. Larry Watson, author ofMontana 1948
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