Flying Shoes, Lisa Howorth
Flying Shoes, Lisa Howorth
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Flying Shoes

Author: Lisa Howorth

Narrator: Debra Winger

Unabridged: 11 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/17/2014


Synopsis

***Bloomsbury lead summer fiction 2014 Mary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter couldn' t resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. A suspect to whom nothing would stick. A neighborhood riddled with secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit authorities, had been able to solve the crime. Now, thirty years later, the reporter' s call will reel a reluctant Mary Byrd from Mississippi back to Virginia where she must confront her family-- and, once again, the murder' s irremovable stain of tragedy. Lisa Howorth' s remarkable Flying Shoes is a work of fiction, but the murder is based on the still-unsolved case of her stepbrother, a front page story in the Washington Post. And yet this is not a crime novel; it is an honest and luminous story of a particular time and place in the South, where even calamitous weather can be a character, everyone has a story, and all are inextricably entwined. With a flamboyant cast, splendid dark humor, a potent sense of history, and a shocking true story at its heart, Flying Shoes is a rich and candid novel from a fresh new southern voice about family and memory and one woman' s flight from a wounded past.

Reviews

I do enjoy a good Southern Fiction book, especially one that has the “voice” of the South. “Flying Shoes” does that, and more. Maybe it’s my fondness for quirky, wonderfully flawed, and loveable characters that are thick in Southern Fiction, as is in this novel. The protagonist, Mary Bird, aka M’Bir......more

Goodreads review by Maureen

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley. The novel is set in the south. The "typical" housewife, Mary Byrd, is the main character. Although she is from Virginia, she doesn't really fit into the local scene, being from away. The story opens with Mary Byrd being called back north to revisit the......more

Copy provided by Netgalley This book was not for me. Mary Byrd, a housewife, gets a call from a detective about the murder of her brother (the murder happened many years ago)so she sets off to go back home to help uncover the mystery of her brothers death. I never really felt a connection to Mary or......more