pickA grandfather, a near-bankrupt farmer, can't connect with his teenaged grandson, never mind his drug-addict daughter. Enter a racehorse, a mysterious gift. The men's lives go technicolor. The brief joy shatters, forcing them on a dangerous road trip to reclaim what's theirs & to find each other.
I'll be finishing this within the hour. In the meantime, I'm on the edge of my seat!
This is a spoiler-free update: I just got through the chapter where the family's brief happiness is shattered. It's the most wrenching chapter I can remember reading in a long, long time. I put the ebook down umpteen times to wash dishes, pace back & forth, or stare into space before resuming. Wow!
Sweet, but something violent is about to shatter everything. I'm hungover and can't read further, not until I've had a nap. Such a great novel so far!
Jim, a 70-something widower and his teenaged grandson set coyote traps on their neighbor, the vivacious widow Lucy's property. It's a favor. Jim and Lucy have the hots for each other. A while later, Jim and his grandson check the traps.
The boy and his mother are the grandfather's drug addict daughter and her biracial son.
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