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August 2014
On Sale: July 29, 2014
Featuring: Alma; Vicky
304 pages
ISBN: 006232344X
EAN: 9780062323446
Kindle: B00GG08J0G
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Carrie La Seur makes her remarkable debut with The Home
Place, a mesmerizing, emotionally evocative, and atmospheric
literary novel in the vein of The House Girl and A Land More
Kind Than Home, in which a successful lawyer is pulled back
into her troubled family’s life in rural Montana in the wake
of her sister’s death. The only Terrebonne who made it out, Alma thought she was
done with Montana, with its bleak winters and stifling ways.
But an unexpected call from the local police takes the
successful lawyer back to her provincial hometown and pulls
her into the family trouble she thought she’d left far
behind: Her lying, party-loving sister, Vicky, is dead. Alma
is told that a very drunk Vicky had wandered away from a
party and died of exposure after a night in the brutal cold.
But when Alma returns home to bury Vicky and see to her
orphaned niece, she discovers that the death may not have
been an accident. The Home Place is a story of secrets that will not lie
still, human bonds that will not break, and crippling
memories that will not be silenced. It is a story of rural
towns and runaways, of tensions corporate and racial, of
childhood trauma and adolescent betrayal, and of the guilt
that even forgiveness cannot ease. Most of all, this is a
story of the place we carry in us always: home.
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