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Ordinary Grace
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ISBN10: 1451645856
ISBN13: 9781451645859
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: Mar 4 2014
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.33 Depth: 8.36
Language: English
Awards: Anthony Awards, Dilys Award, Macavity Award
ISBN13: 9781451645859
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: Mar 4 2014
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.33 Depth: 8.36
Language: English
Awards: Anthony Awards, Dilys Award, Macavity Award
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF THE CENTURY
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
WINNER OF THE DILYS AWARD
A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word. New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson's Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. Frank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family--which includes his Methodist minister father; his passionate, artistic mother; Juilliard-bound older sister; and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother--he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years. Told from Frank's perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF THE CENTURY
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
WINNER OF THE DILYS AWARD
A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word. New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson's Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. Frank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family--which includes his Methodist minister father; his passionate, artistic mother; Juilliard-bound older sister; and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother--he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years. Told from Frank's perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.
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