A dark, somber, moody novel, but expertly written. It tells the tale of a shattered family: the father in prison for murder, the mother hitting rock bottom, the 20 year-old son never knowing his father. Things really get going when the father gets out of prison and the son attempts to bring the family together on the deceased grandparent's old ranch. But the father cannot change, the mother's guilt is overpowering, and the son grows away from them, forming new bonds.
What is disturbing is the cavalier attitude of the father toward murder. He is not a psychopath, or even even disturbed - he seems perfectly normal, yet thinks nothing of shooting a policeman, for instance.
Despite the dark tone, it is an excellent book, well written.
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