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Author Howorth, Lisa.

Title Flying shoes : a novel / Lisa Howorth.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION HOWORTH    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Mystery  MYS-HOW    Missing
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F HOWORTH, LISA    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. Edition.
Description 325 pages ; 24 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Women journalist -- Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction.
Sexually abused boys -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Suspense fiction. -- Fiction.
Subject FICTION / General.
ISBN 9781620403013 (hardback)
1620403013 (hardback)
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