ordinary grace william kent krueger review

I was expecting a tight mystery and that kept me guessing, but I wasn't expecting such a rich story. I was looking forward to sitting down with ORDINARY GRACE, but I had no idea just how much I'd love this book. They discover family secrets and lies, and they even see the extent people will go to protect themselves. When tragedy hits Frankie's own family, Frankie and his younger brother are forced to grow up way too fast. It began with an 'accidental' death of a young boy and just continued to get worse from there with a variety of losses. For 13 year old Frankie Drum, though, it was a summer of loss.

ORDINARY GRACE takes place in a small town in Minnesota in 1961 in a time when our entire country seemed to be hopeful with a new young president. ORDINARY GRACE was a fantastic literary mystery and I devoured it in just a few hours. Well, let me just tell you that I absolutely get it.

Krueger, and especially his latest novel ORDINARY GRACE, so I decided it was high time to see what all the fuss was about. Naturally, I have head some pretty amazing things about Mr. I had never read a novel by William Kent Krueger. Price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible Manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apartĪround him. Told from Frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace isĪ brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young Suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his Into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, Sister and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother- he finds himself thrust Minister father his passionate, artistic mother Juilliard-bound older Tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family- which includes his Methodist Season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when But for thirteen-year-old Frankĭrum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed It was a time of innocence and hope for aĬountry with a new, young president. Root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’sĭrugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on everyīarbershop magazine rack. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold Since it was spoken forgotten a single word.”

Ordinary grace william kent krueger review