The narrator recalls an event from his boyhood that changed his family forever. In a small town composed of pioneer families and Native American residents, the boy's uncle is the local doctor and is suspected of sexually abusing his female Native American patients. Meanwhile the sheriff, who is also the doctor's brother, must decide how to walk ...
One day in 1961, the father of the narrator's best friend had shot a state senator and then killed himself. Naturally, the question of why becomes the talk of the town, but it is much more than that for the narrator, in this piercing study of love and betrayal, grief and desire, youth and remembrance.
This complex tale revolves around a tepidly married woman named Sonja, a Norwegian immigrant who runs an apple orchard with her American husband. To earn extra money, Sonja poses nude for the famous painter Ned Weaver--and her husband becomes enraged and jealous. Years later, Weaver's long-suffering wife sells the paintings for a small fortune.
Larry Watson's sixth novel is about Paul Finley's obsession with Laura Coe Pettit, from his first encounter with her when he is 11 and she is 22, into his 40s.
A novel about serial murders in a small town. Wanekia, Minnesota is the sort of place that would ordinarily be described as friendly, dull, and secure, until a succession of brutal killings upsets the surface calm and sets neighbor against neighbor.
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