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Title Statement | Broken river: a novel / J. Robert Lennon. |
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Author | Lennon, J. Robert, 1970- |
Publication | Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press,[2017]©2017 |
Extent of Item | 276 pages ; |
ISBN | 1555977723 (pbk.) 9781555977726 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3103181 |
Summary | Karl, Eleanor, and their daughter, Irina, arrive from New York City in the wake of Karl's infidelity to start anew. Karl tries to stabilize his flailing art career. Eleanor, a successful commercial novelist, eagerly pivots in a new creative direction. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Irina becomes obsessed with the brutal murders that occurred in the house years earlier. And, secretly, so does her mother. As the ensemble cast grows to include Louis, a hapless salesman in a carpet warehouse who is haunted by his past, and Sam, a young woman newly reunited with her jailbird brother, the seemingly unrelated crime that opened the story becomes ominously relevant. Hovering over all this activity looms a gradually awakening narrative consciousness that watches these characters lie to themselves and each other, unleashing forces that none of them could have anticipated and that put them in mortal danger. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Spouses--Fiction |
Adultery--Fiction | |
Families--Fiction | |
Murder--Fiction | |
Truthfulness and falsehood--Fiction | |
By Location | New York (State)--Fiction |
By Genre | Mystery fiction |
Suspense fiction |