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Flying Shoes: a Novel
Lisa Howorth
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 voice about family and memory and one woman?s flight from a wounded past.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 17, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9781620403013 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury USA |
| Pages | 336 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 571 g |
| Language | English |
