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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Oct 5, 2010


Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Author: Tom Franklin
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: William Morrow (October 5, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060594667
ISBN-13: 978-0060594664

Very good book. Well written with clear and simple language. Written so that you concentrate on the story, not the actual writing. In other words, a book where you sink into the story and forget about how it’s presented to you.

Larry and “32” met in school and knew each other as friends for a short period of time. Larry is white and 32 is black and therefore they were not destined to remain friends for long, given the structure and confines of the small Southern town they lived in. There were also mysteries that the adults knew and didn’t share that led to them being separated by more than color.

Flash forward 20 years or so. We have Larry living a sad ramshackle existence in a run down home after he went on a date at 16 and the girl was never seen again. Though no body or evidence was ever found, the town assumes the worst of Larry and has made him an outcast. He survives by slowly selling off pieces of the 500 acres that were his family’s land to the lumber mill.

32 , formally known as Silas, went off to find his fame and fortune as a baseball star. A blown elbow and time as a university policeman has brought him home to this small town to be the one and only person on the police force. Larry has reached out to him a few times since his return but 32 has managed to avoid him.

Than another girl goes missing……

I highly recommend giving this book a read!





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