
Summer of Love and Evil
Michael Kinnamon
(Author)Description
on small-town American life. When Charles Weaver's plans for the summer after high school graduation go awry, he ends up working for the street crew in his hometown before heading off to college.
Charles, school valedictorian and son of a lawyer, not only knows nothing about driving tractors and laying asphalt, he can't remember even meeting the regular members of the crew: Dexter, who collects discarded furniture for the house he's going to build someday in the Ozarks; the Shakespeare-quoting Moss, a teacher in rural schools before consolidation of the district, and their boss, Clyde, whose strength and temper are legendary in Savannah County.
Two things change Charles's summer experience and life dramatically. On the spur of the moment, he asks Clyde's daughter, Frankie, to go on a date and their romance is a surprise to everyone. Then, the oldest log church in Iowa is destroyed by fire, and Charles stumbles upon a badly-burned body while cleaning up debris. Was this an outsider mixing meth in the hard-to-find church, as the sheriff contends? Or was someone local involved, as Charles suspects? Charles, the sheriff, and Frankie collide in a stunning climax of this novel about a boy becoming a man through his growing awareness of the complexity of love and the subtle power of evil.
Product Details
Publisher | Publerati |
Publish Date | May 01, 2021 |
Pages | 252 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780997913750 |
Dimensions | 9.0 X 5.8 X 0.8 inches | 0.9 pounds |
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Reviews
-- Ellen Cooney, author of One Night Two Souls Went Walking, The Mountaintop School for Dogs, and more.
"This is a very lovely, clear-eyed book about a young man's dawning awareness of extraordinary men and women, as well as the hard realities, in a Midwestern town where he's grown up. A generous and moving evocation of people living in a world that's undergoing change, and the ways, some deeply compassionate, others coldly cruel, with which they move into the unknown. -- Douglas Penick, author, Journey of the North Star
"A terrific debut novel from a leading voice for religious tolerance, exploring love and evil in small-town America." -- Don Trowden, author Normal Family Trilogy
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