Ordinary Grace - William Kent Krueger

nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER n WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL n WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD n A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 nFrom New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961. n nThat 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. n nNew 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. n nFrank 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. n nTold 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.n