"Forty Martyrs follows the intertwining lives of the people of Tuscola, Illinois, a small Midwestern college town that, over the course of the book, collectively experiences a spectacular fire, a terrible stabbing, and a questionable religious sighting. Through shifts in tone and perspective, Deaver's natural storytelling creates a beautiful symphonic effect, an ode to small towns and Midwestern lives."-- Amazon.
Contents
Vasco and the virgin -- Lowell and the rolling thunder -- Coal grove -- Projects -- The underlife -- Forty martyrs -- Bottom -- Scars -- Truth.