Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
A Mystery, Crime, Fiction book. all monsters were misunderstood. Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter //
In the 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals in a small town in rural Mississippi. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry was the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, black single mother. But then Larry took a girl to a drive-in movie and she was never seen or heard from again. He never confessed . . . and was never charged.More than twenty...
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- Pages: 318 pages
- ISBN: 9780330533560 / 330533568
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all monsters were misunderstood. Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter // You can bury the past but it always seems to come back, one way or another. Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter // ...in the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted leaves and the cries and chatter of blue jays and brown thrashers and redbirds and sparrows, the calling of crows and hawks, squirrels barking, frogs burping, the far braying of dogs, armadillos snorkeling through dead leaves... Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter //
I almost didn't finish this one. I struggled through the first few chapters trying to become comfortable with the way the author writes and his sometimes long-winded sentences. I'm so glad I persevered. This is a wonderful story, although sometimes dark and often depressing.For me, these types of stories are not so much about the mystery/murder... Larry Ott's character in this book just broke my heart. I mean took it out and threw it on the ground and stomped it kind of broken. His character was a little bookworm who just didn't fit in with the other kids. When he dared to think he had a date with a cute girl and took her out she never returned. So his whole life has been "Scary... Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is the first Tom Franklin book I have read and he is certainly a fine writer. Set in rural Mississippi in the late 1970's, this is a story of a friendship between loner, Larry Ott, and former high school sports star and local constable, Silas Jones or "32". Back in high school, Larry, on his first date,...
