Penguin
March 2012
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Featuring: Arthur Scott; Celia Scott
368 pages ISBN: 0452297591 EAN: 9780452297593 Kindle: B004BDP08Y Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
"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.
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