Ordinary Grace
William Kent Krueger
Atria Books
<I>NEW YORK TIMES </I>BESTSELLER<BR>WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL<BR>WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD<BR>A <I>SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL </I>BEST BOOK OF 2013<BR><I>&#8220;That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.&#8221; </I><BR>New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson&#8217;s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. <BR>Frank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family&#8212;which includes...</BR></BR></BR></BR></BR></BR>