The Exact Nature Of Our Wrongs

The Exact Nature Of Our WrongsJanet Peery's first novel, The River Beyond the World, was a National Book Award finalist in 1996. Acclaimed for her gorgeous writing and clear eyed gaze into the hearts of people, Peery now returns with her second novel, The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs. On a summer evening in the blue collar town of Amicus, Kansas, the Campbell family gathers for a birthday dinner for their ailing patriarch, town judge Abel Campbell, prepared and hosted by their still

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'Claire Douglas (author of Local Girl Missing)

It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he experience a deeper

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illegitimacy and homosexuality

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