- Loss (Psychology), Redemption, Prisoners, Manslaughter
"In this astonishingly accomplished, morally complicated, "exceptional and starkly beautiful debut" (Kevin Powers, National Book Award-nominated author of The Yellow Birds), a prideful electrician in 1920s rural Alabama struggles to overcome past sins and find peace after being sent to prison for manslaughter.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Virginia Reeves
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 331
- Publisher
- Fanfare, Simon & Schuster, Limited, Scribner
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781912097456
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