Book description
A troubled young man’s bright future takes a strange turn when his mother commits murder in this “riveting and disturbing novel” of 1990s Washington State (The Guardian).
A Guardian and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2016. Joseph March, a twenty-one-year-old working-class kid from Seattle, is on top of the…
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1 author picked Shelter in Place as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I read a short story by Alexander Maksik and fell in love with his writing. When I sought out this earlier novel by him, I read pages repeatedly. His use of language and his ability to capture an emotional life from the beginning of youth to the age when we are looking back on what we loved and lost, drew me in and kept me longing for more.
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