A review by jwmcoaching
The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford

3.0

Harsh, unforgiving, strange, touching. All of these apply to The Mountain Lion, which kind of reminded me of Camus' The Stranger, but in a completely different setting. Think Mersault crossed with Cormac McCarthy. Stafford is a realist in her prose and almost comes off as existential in her sensibilities. This is deceptively "coming of age," in that it doesn't conform to the standards of that genre, even though you might think that's where it's headed in the beginning.