Three families live in the seaside village of Frip -- the Romos, the Ronsens,
and a little girl named Capable and her widowed father. The townspeople of Frip
make their living raising goats, but they must fight off a daily invasion of
gappers, bright orange, many-eyed creatures that cover goats and stop them from
giving milk. When the gappers target Capable's goats, the Romos and the Ronsens
turn their backs on the gapper-ridden Capable. What will Capable do about her
gapper plague? An imaginative tale by acclaimed author George Saunders accented
with haunting illustrations by award-winning illustrator Lane Smith, "The Very
Persistent Gappers of Frip is an