Twisted Tree

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2009

ISBN-13: 9780547400808

<DIV><B>This &ldquo;beautifully written&rdquo; novel about a murder in small-town South Dakota explores &ldquo;a haunted territory of regret, longing and guilt&rdquo; (Jess Walter).</B><BR /><BR /> Hayley Jo Zimmerman is gone. Taken. And the citizens of the windswept prairie town of Twisted Tree must come to terms with this tragedy&mdash;the loss, the repercussions, and the secrets they carry&mdash;as one girl&rsquo;s short life unfolds through the stories of those who knew her.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Among them are a supermarket clerk hiding the terrors of her past; an ex-priest who remembers a lost love; an abused caretaker exacting a long-awaited revenge; Hayley Jo&rsquo;s best friend, who fed her addiction; and her father, channeling his grief in desperate and unexpected ways. As Hayley Jo&rsquo;s murder recasts and reconnects these left-behind lives, her absence roots itself in the community in astonishingly violent and tender ways.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> One of the best contemporary writers on the American West, Kent Meyers takes us into the complexity of community regardless of landscape, and offers a tribute to the powerful effect one person&rsquo;s life can have on everyone she knew.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;Meyers&rsquo;s small masterpiece deserves comparison to the work of Raymond Carver, Joy Williams, and Peter Matthiessen.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Publishers Weekly, </I>starred review<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;Like Russell Banks in <I>The Sweet Hereafter</I>, Kent Meyers spins out his intimate life stories from the hub of a small town tragedy and takes us into places we never thought we&rsquo;d go.&rdquo; &mdash;Stewart O&rsquo;Nan, author of <I>Songs for the Missing</I></DIV>