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Flying shoes : a novel / Lisa Howorth.
- Title
- Flying shoes : a novel / Lisa Howorth.
- Author
- Howorth, Lisa
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3608.O95729 F59 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 325 pages : illustration; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Mary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter couldn't resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. A suspect to whom nothing would stick. A neighborhood riddled with secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit authorities, had been able to solve the crime. Now, thirty years later, the reporter's call will reel a reluctant Mary Byrd from Mississippi back to Virginia where she must confront her family--and, once again, the murder's irremovable stain of tragedy. Lisa Howorth's remarkable Flying Shoes is a work of fiction, but the murder is based on the still-unsolved case of her stepbrother, a front page story in the Washington Post. And yet this is not a crime novel; it is an honest and luminous story of a particular time and place in the South, where even calamitous weather can be a character, everyone has a story, and all are inextricably entwined. With a flamboyant cast, splendid dark humor, a potent sense of history, and a shocking true story at its heart, Flying Shoes is a rich and candid novel from a fresh new southern voice about family and memory and one woman's flight from a wounded past"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Suspense fiction
- Suspense fiction. – Fiction.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781620403013 (hardback)
- 1620403013 (hardback)
- LCCN
- ^^2013039124
- OCLC
- 862148954
- SCSB-12779903
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library