I think this novel is quite strong. It’s about a young girl and her dad returning to her mother’s hometown, long after her death. It involves a seemingly rapacious grandmother, odd events, small town quirks, and lots of gun violence. Yeah, oddly it does have that last one. The novel itself is broken into several present-time/progressive-time chapters about the girl, Loo, and her father, the titular Samuel Hawley growing accustomed to a stationary life after years of travelling. In addition, there’s the background story being […]