Red Nose Girl
Peter Gould’s new YA novel is available now!
After twelve years of work, what moment is Peter Gould meeting?
Vermont is ready for new thinking about Long-Term Incarceration, and Restorative Justice, too. Should we spend millions of dollars on a new women's prison? Should we even do business with America’s largest private prison companies, whose profits are soaring because of contracts with ICE detention centers?
RED NOSE GIRL has answers to these questions, and a lot more, in the voices of young people who need to be listened to. Young people are some of the Vermonters most affected by our punitive justice system.
In RED NOSE GIRL, that's this moment's issue. It's fiction for readers to enjoy, but it also means to inspire Vermonters of all ages to join the discussion.
“The heroine, Lettie, and the hero, Trevor, take on an enormous cause to raise people’s awareness... the novel becomes a journey, both inner and outer, for two relatively innocent but curiously wise teenage high school students to discover what power they have to change this unjust system.”
Buy Red Nose Girl from Strand Books or Thrift Books.