Goats

Pot smoking and goat trekking...does it get any better than this? An amazingly engaging coming-of-age novel that has elicited comparisons to the Catcher in the Rye. What starts off as paradise-like environment for Ellis Whitman slowly starts to unravel at the seams as the true natures of the partici......more

On the back cover of this coming-of-age story we learn that Mark Jude Poirier is a graduate of the "Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins and the Iowa Writers' Workshop". I read "Goats", his unusually sure-footed debut novel, to a background of faint grinding and whimpering noises, almost as if someone......more

As I approached the end of this book, I was perfectly aware that it was almost over, but when I looked down and saw I only had about eight pages left, I stopped reading. I didn't want it to be over. Beautifully written, Goats is a coming of age story that you will never forget. The characters are bel......more

Great first novel. Coming of age story. 14 year old protagonist from dysfunctional family whose best friend is a goat raising, pot growing stoner who actually guides him through rough times. Funny and warm and suddenly volatile keep the story moving forward. I’m looking for something else by this au......more

I’ll be honest, I loved this book. There wasn’t exactly a plot or an antagonist; it was just, here’s what Ellis and Goat Man’s lives look like. And I loved it. I could have kept reading it, possibly indefinitely. It was a wonderful depiction of changing priorities and perspectives as your environment......more