Ordinary Grace By William Kent Krueger
Ordinary Grace By William Kent Krueger In the summer of 1961, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum and his stuttering brother Jake stumble upon a man over a dead body in a place they shouldn't be playing. They tell the authorities and their pastor father. Thus begins a summer of deaths surrounding this family. Frank and Jake live with their father, a pastor, their mother who once wanted to be famous, and their sister who is their mother's pride and favorite child. Frank and Jake live in a small town where everyone knows everyone else. It is in Minnesota, on land that once belonged to the Sioux, and where some tribe members still reside. The line between who can and cannot be trusted is thin and changing, almost amorphous, in this small town called New Bremen. The deaths that come that summer are the result of murder, accident, and suicide. The next to occur hits close to home, when Frank and Jake's sister Ariel is found in the river. The tow turns its gaze to her rich boyfriend K...