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Kill Your Darling
Kill Your Darling | Clay McLeod Chapman
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The acclaimed author of Ghost Eaters and What Kind of Mother comes to Bad Hand Books.The body of Glenn Partridge's 15-year-old son was discovered in a vacant lot nearly forty years ago. The police are still no closer to finding the murderer decades later.Glenn refuses to let the memory of his son fade-or let anyone else within this small working-class community forget. His long-suffering wife signs him up for an amateur fiction-writing workshop at the local library, just to get him out of the house and out of his own head.Rule number Write what you know-so Glenn decides to share his son's story. The class offers him a chance to make sense of a senseless crime and find the fictional closure life never provided. But as Glenn's story takes on a life of its own, someone from the past is compelled to come out of hiding before he reaches...The End.
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This is my third by Chapman, and it might be my favorite. It's got some small tense issues and a timeline or two that don't match up (if someone has three kids in quick succession, those kids will no longer be children after 40 years pass), but perhaps these are intentional, given the narrator. It's an interesting look at grief and vengeance. So, perfect for reading on Christmas? (No, I need some Frank Capra now.)

ImperfectCJ Oh, and this is my #bookspin for December! 4d
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