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Riverhead
August 2014
On Sale: August 14, 2014
363 pages
ISBN: 1594632510
EAN: 9781594632518
Kindle: B00INIYFPC
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A big, moving novel of one tight-knit Texas community and
the events that alter its residents’ lives forever. Friendswood, Texas, is a small Gulf Coast town of church
suppers, oil rigs on the horizon, hurricane weather, and
high school football games. When tragedy rears its head with
an industrial leak that kills and sickens residents, it
pulls on the common thread that runs through the community,
intensifying everything. From a confused fifteen-year-old
girl beset by visions, to a high school football star
tormented by his actions, to a mother galvanized by the
death of her teen daughter, to a morally bankrupt father
trying to survive his mistakes, René Steinke explores what
happens when families are trapped in the ambiguity of
history’s missteps—when the actions of a few change the
lives and well-being of many. Driving the narrative powerfully forward is the suspenseful
question of the fates of four Friendswood families, and
Steinke’s striking insight and empathy. Inspired in part by
the town where she herself grew up, this layered,
propulsive, psychologically complex story is poignant proof
that extreme public events, as catastrophic as they might
seem, must almost always pale in comparison to the intimate
personal experiences and motivations of grief, love, lust,
ambition, anxiety, and regret.
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