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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Tom Franklin
A Novel
William Morrow
October 2010
On Sale: October 5, 2010
288 pages
ISBN: 0060594667
EAN: 9780060594664
Hardcover
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Fiction Family Life
Edgar Award-winning author Tom Franklin returns with his
most accomplished and resonant novel so far—an atmospheric
drama set in rural Mississippi. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott
and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as
different as night and day: Larry, the child of
lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a
poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys
stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special
bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date
to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She
was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes
rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the
county—and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with
Larry was broken, and then Silas left town. More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives
a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers
of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and
Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl
disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men
who once called each other friend are forced to confront the
past they've buried and ignored for decades.
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