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The Reconstructionist
Nick Arvin
HarperCollins
March 2012
On Sale: March 1, 2012
352 pages
ISBN: 0061995169
EAN: 9780061995163
Kindle: B005O08IO6
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Like an episode of CSI: The Midwest scripted by Russell
Banks, The Reconstructionist is a gripping novel of love,
betrayal, and psychological suspense.
One instant can change an entire lifetime. As a boy, Ellis
Barstow heard the sound of the collision that killed
Christopher, his older half-brother—an accident that would
haunt him for years. A decade later, searching for purpose
after college, Ellis takes a job as a forensic
reconstructionist, investigating and recreating the details
of fatal car accidents—under the tutelage of the irascible
John Boggs, who married Christopher’s girlfriend. He takes
naturally to the work, fascinated by the task of trying to
find reason, and justice, within the seemingly random chaos
of smashed glass, cracked fenders, and broken lives. But
Ellis is harboring secrets of his own—his haunted memory of
the car crash that killed his brother, but also his feelings
for Boggs’s wife, Heather, which soon ripen into a
full-blown affair. And when Boggs inexplicably disappears,
Ellis sets out to find him . . . and to try to make sense of
the crash site his own life has become. Raising a host of universal questions—Can science ever
explain matters of the heart? Can we ever escape the
gravitational pull of the past?—Nick Arvin’s novel is at
once deeply moving and compulsively readable.
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