The Buried Book, D. M. Pulley
The Buried Book, D. M. Pulley
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The Buried Book

Author: D. M. Pulley

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Unabridged: 11 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 08/23/2016

Synopsis

When Althea Leary abandons her nine-year-old son, Jasper, he’s left on his uncle’s farm with nothing but a change of clothes and a Bible.It’s 1952, and Jasper isn’t allowed to ask questions or make a fuss. He’s lucky to even have a home and must keep his mouth shut and his ears open to stay in his uncle’s good graces. No one knows where his mother went or whether she’s coming back. Desperate to see her again, he must take matters into his own hands. From the farm, he embarks on a treacherous search that will take him to the squalid hideaways of Detroit and back again, through tawdry taverns, peep shows, and gambling houses.As he’s drawn deeper into an adult world of corruption, scandal, and murder, Jasper uncovers the shocking past still chasing his mother—and now it’s chasing him too.

About D. M. Pulley

D. M. Pulley lives just outside Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband, two sons, and two dogs. She is a professional engineer who specializes in rehabbing historic structures as well as conducting forensic investigations of building failures. Pulley’s structural survey of an abandoned building in Cleveland formed the basis for her debut novel, The Dead Key.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede on September 19, 2017

This book made me think of To Kill a Mockingbird. Perhaps not so much the story in itself, but, the fact that the narrator, Jasper, is only a child that abruptly has to face some serious issues when his mother leaves him at his uncle's farm. Just as Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird had to face racism......more

Goodreads review by Erin on September 22, 2016

Thanks to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for a free advanced electronic ARC of this novel, in exchange for an honest review. I rated “The Buried Book” by D.M Pulley three stars. I almost rated it 2.5 to be honest, but I give it an extra .5 for good measure because, although it wasn’t entirely t......more

Goodreads review by Judy on August 21, 2019

D.M. Pulley returns following her award-winning debut, The Dead Key (2015-highly recommend), with an absorbing historical fiction, family saga: THE BURIED BOOK: beautiful, yet harrowing; mixed with mystery, suspense, and intrigue. A determined nine-year-old boy’s desperate journey into the dark c......more

Goodreads review by Simply Sam on February 07, 2017

I wanted to love this one more than I did. So much happens to our young Jasper, so much in fact that it started to lose its plausibility. Maybe it was listening to the audiobook, where Jasper's voice was not that of a 9 year old, that kept me from connecting to him as a child. Maybe it was thinking......more

Goodreads review by CL on August 05, 2016

Jasper’s world falls apart one morning when his mother wakes him up and takes him to his uncle’s to live. He tries to find his mother by putting the details of her past together and when he finds a diary he thinks might be hers in the burnt out remnants of the home of her youth he realizes she is mo......more

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