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Life, and Death, and Giants

Life, and Death, and Giants

Ron Rindo

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Product Info

ISBN: 9781250375339

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Publication Date: 9/9/25

Binding: Hardcover

Age Range: -

Grade Range: NA-NA

Series: ,

Pages:

Language: English

BISAC: Fiction, Literary, Small Town & Rural, and Magical Realism

Related Subjects: Athletes, Christian fiction, Football coaches, Orphans, Amish, Grandparent and child, Wisconsin, Novels, Tall people, Family secrets, and Magic realist fiction

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A heart too big for this world. A life that changes everyone.

"Life, and Death, and Giants is 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 of Lucky and A 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 it's hard to hide forever when you're 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 Gabriel's life but the lives of everyone he meets.

Life, and Death, and Giants is a moving story of faith, family, buried secrets, and everyday miracles.

Staff Reviews

A story both familiar and magical, Ron Rindo’s novel is full of achingly real, complex, and beautifully flawed characters. The story revolves around Gabriel, a gentle giant who is athletically gifted and has an otherworldy connection to animals and nature. Told through multiple point of views, Ron Rindo’s novel is a sweeping, big hearted story that blends myth and morality into a book that will give you all the feels.

-Stephanie G.

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