` My mother called anyone or anything that seemed alone, or ended up in the wrong place, a stray. There were stray people, stray dogs, stray bullets, & stray butterflies.` Fourteen-year-old Pearl France lives in the front seat of a broken down car & her mother Margot lives in the back. Together they survive on a diet of powdered milk & bug spray, love songs & stolen cigarettes. Life on the edge of a Florida trailer park is strange enough, but when Pastor Rex`s ` Guns for God` programme brings Eli Redmond to town Pearl`s world is upended. Eli pays regular visits to Margot in the back seat, forcing Pearl to find a world beyond the car. Margot is given a gift by Eli, a gun of her own, just like he`s given her flowers. It sits under the driver`s seat, a dark presence... Gun Love is a hypnotic story of family, community & violence. Told from the perspective of a sharp-eyed teenager, it exposes America`s love affair with firearms & its painful consequences.