Twisted Tree - Softcover

Meyers, Kent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0547386400 ISBN 13: 9780547386409

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2010

Synopsis

Hayley Jo Zimmerman is gone. Taken. And the people of small-town Twisted Tree must come to terms with this terrible event—their loss, their place in it, and the secrets they all carry.

In this brilliantly written novel, one girl’s story unfolds through the stories of those who knew her. Among them, a supermarket clerk recalls an encounter with a disturbingly thin Hayley Jo. An ex-priest remembers baptizing Hayley Jo and seeing her with her best friend, Laura, whose mother the priest once loved. And Laura berates herself for all the running they did, how it fed her friend’s addiction, and how there were so many secrets she didn’t see. And so, Hayley Jo’s absence recasts the lives of others and connects them, her death rooting itself into the community in astonishingly violent and tender ways.

Solidly in the company of Aryn Kyle, Kent Haruf, and Peter Matthiessen, Kent Meyers is one of the best contemporary writers on the American West. Here he also takes us into the complexity of community regardless of landscape, and offers a tribute to the powerful effect one person's life can have on everyone she knew.

About this title

About the Author

KENT MEYERS is the author of The Work of Wolves, Light in the Crossing, The River Warren, and The Witness of Combines. He is a recipient of an ALA Alex Award, two Minnesota Book Awards, and a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Award. His work has been included in the New York Times list of Notable Books and is published in a wide array of prestigious magazines.

From the Back Cover

"Meyers, like Faulkner and McCarthy, knows that the smallest corner of the country can contain the universe." --Marjorie Sandor, author of Night Gardner and Portrait of My Mother

 

Hayley Jo Zimmerman is gone. Taken. And the people of small-town Twisted Tree must come to terms with this terrible event?their loss, their place in it, and the secrets they all carry.

 

In this brilliantly written novel, one girl’s story unfolds through the stories of those who knew her. Among them, a supermarket clerk recalls an encounter with a disturbingly thin Hayley Jo. An ex-priest remembers baptizing Hayley Jo and seeing her with her best friend, Laura, whose mother the priest once loved. And Laura berates herself for all the running they did, how it fed her friend’s addiction, and how there were so many secrets she didn’t see.

 

And so, Hayley Jo’s absence recasts the lives of others and connects them, her death rooting itself into the community in astonishingly violent and tender ways. And in Twisted Tree, acclaimed novelist Kent Meyers has created a powerful tribute to the effect one person's life can have on everyone she knew.

From the Inside Flap

"Meyers, like Faulkner and McCarthy, knows that the smallest corner of the country can contain the universe." --Marjorie Sandor, author of Night Gardner and Portrait of My Mother

Hayley Jo Zimmerman is gone. Taken. And the people of small-town Twisted Tree must come to terms with this terrible event their loss, their place in it, and the secrets they all carry.In this brilliantly written novel, one girl s story unfolds through the stories of those who knew her. Among them, a supermarket clerk recalls an encounter with a disturbingly thin Hayley Jo. An ex-priest remembers baptizing Hayley Jo and seeing her with her best friend, Laura, whose mother the priest once loved. And Laura berates herself for all the running they did, how it fed her friend s addiction, and how there were so many secrets she didn t see.And so, Hayley Jo s absence recasts the lives of others and connects them, her death rooting itself into the community in astonishingly violent and tender ways. And in Twisted Tree, acclaimed novelist Kent Meyers has created a powerful tribute to the effect one person's life can have on everyone she knew.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0547386400
• ISBN 13: 9780547386409
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312