Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
A Novel

it is totally okay to float old reviews when you suddenly have a picture of yourself and the author to attach to them. also, when you are bored. but only once a day. anything more than that becomes boring. or desperate. one of the best books i have read, ever. and exactly what i was looking for when i......more

M, I, crooked letter, crooked letter, I, crooked letter, crooked letter, I, humpback, humpback, I.--How southern children are taught to spell Mississippi Tom Franklin My wife's family is from Prentiss, Mississippi not far from where the action of this book takes place. When my wife's grandmother d......more

Worst first date ever. Poor Larry Ott, the bookish kid, the weak one, a smallish white boy, the bully-target at school, takes out the girl of his dreams, returns home alone, and gets blamed for her presumed rape and murder. Decades later, ostracized by the town, living alone in the same house he gre......more

So often when I read a book I cannot wait to talk about it, eager to hear other people's takes and share my own thoughts, but sometimes, as in life, the unexpected occurs.  A book has been read all right and it affected me but still I need to let it rest a while, need to think on it, recover from it......more

"The Rutherford girl had been missing for eight days when Larry Ott returned home and found a monster waiting in his house." This book grabbed me from the beginning and never let go. I was mesmerized by the rural Mississippi setting and quickly connected to the main characters. Larry Ott, otherwise k......more