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The Distant Dead

Heather Young

Start date: December 5, 2020

Finish date: December 18, 2020

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Jul 06, 2020 Diane S ☔ rated it really liked it

In a desert town outside of Reno, Nevada and a young boy, Saul finds a burnt body. The body is that if a fairly new math teacher, and except for Saul and Nora, another teacher, he has made few friends. He also has a grief stricken past and many secrets. Saul, whose own mother had recently died, lives with his two hermit like uncles. Their family has quite a long reaching reputation.

The story is told by multiple voices, Saul, Jake, the paramedic and Nora, who also has and is still dealing with he ...more

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Dec 01, 2020 ☮Karen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mystery-suspense-thriller, audio, favorites, overdrive, rural-america, read-in-2020

4.5 rounded up.

I loved this author's first book, and same here, only the two books are very different. This felt a lot like reading a Nickolas Butler novel -- a young boy growing up in small town America. Coincidentally, while reading this I was reading a Nickolas Butler book so that may be why I made that connection, but the writing styles and themes are definitely similar.

Here we have Sal, an eleven year old who has become orphaned recently by the death of his mother. He goes to live on the f ...more

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