The town is filled with other well drawn characters including Gus the “loveable drunk” who lives in the church basement, Karl the son of the richest family in town whom his sister is dating, Morris the town bully, and Emil the great musician who is both physically and mentally scarred from his earlier life. Thirteen year old Frank Drum tells how death visited his community that summer in the forms of “Accident, Nature, Suicide, Murder.”įrank’s father is a preacher who was changed by the war, his mother is a talented musician who thought she was marrying a soon to be lawyer, his younger brother has a horrible stutter, and his older sister is headed for Julliard in the fall. The story is set in 1961 in a small town in Minnesota. So glad I did, as I really liked this one. But since she has been relentless, I decided to give him another chance and read Ordinary Grace. Last year, based upon her recommendation I read his book The Tender Land, and didn’t much care for it. A librarian friend, whom I usually agree about books with, has been singing the praises of William Kent Krueger for quite a while now.
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