![]() ![]() Now, two men who once called each other friend are finally forced to confront the painful past they've buried for too many years. A powerful and resonant novel from Tom Franklincritically acclaimed author of Smonk and Hell at the Breech Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter tells the riveting story of two boyhood friends, torn apart by circumstance, who are brought together again by a terrible crime in a small Mississippi town. Another teenaged girl has disappeared, causing rumors to swirl once again. The men have few reasons to cross paths, and they rarely do - until fate intervenes again. Silas left home to play college baseball, but now he's Chabot's constable. ![]() Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence in Chabot, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion, the looks of blame that have shadowed him. ![]() The incident shook up the town, including Silas, and the bond the boys shared was irrevocably broken. Her stepfather tried to have Larry arrested but no body was found and Larry never confessed. In high school, a girl who lived up the road from Larry had gone to the drive-in movie with him and nobody had seen her again. Yet a special bond developed between them in Chabot, Mississippi. Larry was the child of lower middle-class white parents, Silas the son of a poor, single, black mother - their worlds as different as night and day. ![]() Larry Ott and Silas ''32'' Jones were unlikely boyhood friends. In a small Mississippi town, two men are torn apart by circumstance and reunited by tragedy in this resonant new novel from the award-winning author of the critically-acclaimed Hell at the Breech. ![]()
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