![]() This book is definitely the winner of the OMGWTFBBQ award Now she will come face to face with the dangerous, terrifying secret that everyone knows. Her sister was so special, so perfect - and dead. She knew her father could not love her as he loved her sister. Andrews, author of the phenomenally successful Dollanganger series, has created a fascinating new cast of characters in this haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and the suffocating power of parental love.Īudrina Adare wanted so to be as good as her sister. Diversity: Intellectual Disability, Possible Autism, Physical Disability (bilateral above the knee amputee), Chronic Illness (Osteogenesis imperfecta/brittle bone disease), PTSDĬontent Warnings: Abelism, Alcohol Abuse, Body Shaming, Bullying, Implied Cannibalism, Child Abuse, Child Death, Childbirth, Death, Forced Captivity, Gaslighting, Illness, Emotional Incest, Medical Torture/Abuse, Miscarriage, Mental Illness, Pedophilia, Physical Abuse, Racism, Rape/Sexual Assault, Implied Self-Harm, Sexism, Sexual Abuse, Slut Shaming, Suicide Attempt, Transphobia, Verbal/Emotional Abuse (Highlight to view) ![]()
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![]() To compensate for their loss, following an ancient custom, LaRose's parents, Landreaux and Emmaline, give him to Dusty's family after speaking with a priest and visiting a sweat lodge, to find a way to resolve their guilt. His father, Landreaux Iron, accidentally shoots LaRose's best friend and neighbor, Dusty Ravich, also 5 years old, in a hunting accident, when the buck Landreaux had aimed at suddenly moved from in front of the boy.ĭusty's parents, Peter and Nola, are devastated by his death. Bush and 9/11." The novel's protagonist is LaRose Iron, a young Native American boy. LaRose is set in North Dakota on an Ojibwe reservation in the "era of George W. The novel features the same setting as Erdrich's 2012 novel The Round House. It won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction. ![]() Club, The Sydney Morning Herald, USA Today, and The Chronicle Herald. The book received positive reviews from multiple publications, including The New York Times, The Kansas City Star, Winnipeg Free Press, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, The A.V. ![]() LaRose is a novel by the Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich, published in 2016 by HarperCollins. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The secret behind the mayhem, which is delivered at breakneck speed, concerns a ""scientific"" breakthrough into ""mystical"" truth that Koontz presents like an absentminded professor. Joe witnesses relatives of the crash victims commit senseless suicide, learns that the woman, a genetic scientist, was on the plane but miraculously survived, finds out that she is the quarry of a military-industrial cabal and gains hope that one of his daughters also may have survived. ![]() A visit to their graves wrenches his life around when he spots a black woman taking photos of the site and sees her set upon by thugs. A year after the crash, Joe, who lost his wife and two daughters, is a walking dead man. 11), this novel focuses on the aftermath of an airline disaster, a crash that has apparently killed all on board and has ravaged the soul of L.A. Like Crichton's Airframe (also from Knopf Forecasts, Nov. And that's too bad, because this tale is emblematic of how, in 15 years of bestsellers, Koontz has bridged the commercial gap between the occultism of Stephen King and the scientism of Michael Crichton. Here, the insulation-the preaching about societal rot and spiritual redemption-is back on, thicker than ever. Koontz's last thriller, Intensity, delivered shocks like a stripped hot wire. ![]() |