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Set in New Bremen, Minnesota, in the summer of 1961, William Kent Krueger's novel is narrated by Frank Drum, who looks back forty years to the season when he was thirteen. It was the Twins' first season and the country had a young new president, but for Frank it was a bleak summer when death came often and in many forms. The story centers on his Methodist family and their small community. Published in 2013, the novel won the Edgar Award for Best Novel the following year.
Autodesk CEO Carl Bass singled it out in Books the CEOs Are Recommending as a poignant coming-of-age story about a teenager thrust suddenly into an adult world of secrets.
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Carl Bass (CEO/Autodesk)
Winner of the 2014 Edgar Award for the best novel, William Kent Krueger's "Ordinary Grace" is the story of a young teenager, Frank Drum. Set in the summer of 1961, the novel recounts, from the perspective of Frank looking back 40 years later, how he was suddenly and rudely ushered into an adult world filled with a labyrinth of secrets, betrayal and murder. Krueger unfolds a classically poignant coming-of-age story whose themes are the high price of wisdom and the continuing grace of God. Bass has revealed in interviews that he is a man who reflects on spiritual matters and who recalls moments in his own life when he was called upon to grow up and accept responsibilities that he hadn't foreseen.
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