Bent Road: A Novel
by Lori Roy | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0452297591 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0452297591 Global Overview for this book
Registered by 
Icila
of Nantes, Pays de la Loire France on 1/4/2017
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Icila of Nantes, Pays de la Loire France on 1/4/2017 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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For twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death.
As a young man, Arthur fled Kansas, moved to Detroit, married Celia, and never looked back-until the 1967 riots frighten him even more than his past.
As a young man, Arthur fled Kansas, moved to Detroit, married Celia, and never looked back-until the 1967 riots frighten him even more than his past.
On its way to an adventure. Enjoy !
Thanks Icila - the adventure starts here :)
Amazon Editorial Review
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel
"Don't be fooled by the novel's apparent simplicity: What emerges from the surface is a tale of extraordinary emotional power, one of longstanding pain set against the pulsating drumbeat of social change."
-Sarah Weinman, NPR.org
For twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death. But when the 1967 Detroit riots frighten him even more than his Kansas past, he convinces Celia to pack up their family and return to the road he grew up on, Bent Road, and the same small town where Eve mysteriously died. And then a local girl disappears, catapulting the family headlong into a dead man's curve. . . .
On Bent Road, a battered red truck cruises ominously along the prairie; a lonely little girl dresses in her dead aunt's clothes; a boy hefts his father's rifle in search of a target; and a mother realizes she no longer knows how to protect her children. It is a place where people learn: Sometimes killing is the kindest way.
I really enjoyed this novel. A slow moving, but quite tense read, with good characters.
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel
"Don't be fooled by the novel's apparent simplicity: What emerges from the surface is a tale of extraordinary emotional power, one of longstanding pain set against the pulsating drumbeat of social change."
-Sarah Weinman, NPR.org
For twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death. But when the 1967 Detroit riots frighten him even more than his Kansas past, he convinces Celia to pack up their family and return to the road he grew up on, Bent Road, and the same small town where Eve mysteriously died. And then a local girl disappears, catapulting the family headlong into a dead man's curve. . . .
On Bent Road, a battered red truck cruises ominously along the prairie; a lonely little girl dresses in her dead aunt's clothes; a boy hefts his father's rifle in search of a target; and a mother realizes she no longer knows how to protect her children. It is a place where people learn: Sometimes killing is the kindest way.
I really enjoyed this novel. A slow moving, but quite tense read, with good characters.
Journal Entry 5 by 
keeta1
at Howick Post Office in Howick, Auckland Province New Zealand on Thursday, October 26, 2017
keeta1 at Howick Post Office in Howick, Auckland Province New Zealand on Thursday, October 26, 2017
Released 6 yrs ago (10/25/2017 UTC) at Howick Post Office in Howick, Auckland Province New Zealand
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I hope you enjoy the book. Happy reading!
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