“Besides being a terrific story that examines a powerful range of human experiences and emotions, it was the authentic voice of the teenage narrator, Frank Drum, that kept me reading late into the night. Selected, Women’s National Book Association Great Group Reads (2013) Selected, Summer 2013 Reading Group Indie Next List Pick Selected, A School Library Journal Best Book of 2013 Nominee, Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery & Thriller (2013) Winner, Silver Falchion Award for Best Novel: Literary Mystery/Suspense (2014), Killer Nashville Conferenceįinalist, Maine Readers’ Choice Award (2014), Maine State Library and Maine Library Association Winner, Midwest Booksellers Choice Award for Adult Fiction (2013), Midwest Independent Booksellers Association
Winner, Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel (2014), Mystery Readers International Winner, Squid Award for Best Mystery Set in the United States (2014), Left Coast Crime Winner, Dilys Award (2014), Independent Mystery Booksellers Association Winner, Barry Award for Best Novel (2014), Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine Winner, Anthony Award for Best Novel (2014), Bouchercon World Mystery Convention Winner, Edgar Award for Best Novel (2014), Mystery Writers of America It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God. Told from Frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Graceis a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. Murder.įrank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family-which includes his Methodist minister father his passionate, artistic mother Juilliard-bound older sister and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother-he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.”
A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it.
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