Sweet Hereafter - Russell Banks

A brilliant and powerful novel from the critically acclaimed author of Continental Drift that explores a small town's response to the inexplicable loss of its children in a school bus accident. A novel of compelling moral suspense. .

. .--Los Angeles Times Book Review. n nIn The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident.

Using four different narrators, Banks creates a small-town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: when the worst thing happens, who do you blame?n