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RED
LEAF FALLING
by Kent
Meyers
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub Date: 2013
Format: Hardcover
Brief Description:
ALA Alex
award-winner Kent Meyers's RED LEAF FALLING follows a pair of friends
who may have caused the drowning of one of their classmates when
they were thirteen and the reverberations of this moment and its memory through the rest of their lives, families, and choices.
PRAISE FOR
Meyer's Previous Novel, TWISTED TREE
“Opening this
beautifully lyrical novel with one of the tensest, most harrowing first
chapters in recent memory, Meyers grabs the reader and never lets go. A
serial killer who preys on anorexic young women has set his sights on
20-year-old Hayley Jo Zimmerman. Luring the emaciated girl into his big
blue Lincoln, he begins his torture by offering her a candy bar. Meyers
then tells intimate stories of those connected to Hayley Jo in the tiny,
desolate town of Twisted Tree, S. Dak. Her buffalo rancher father comes
unmoored after his daughter’s death; her best friend Laura is saddled
with guilt and regret – recurring themes throughout this powerful
tale. Once you enter Twisted Tree, you’ll be spellbound.”
--People (October, 2009)
“The novel is
brimming with arresting descriptions, and the western setting is
employed to surprising effect…. Meyers's small masterpiece deserves
comparison to the work of Raymond Carver, Joy Williams and Peter
Matthiessen.”
--Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW)
"Meyers’
prose is strikingly physical, sometimes thrillingly so."
--Kirkus
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