Flying shoes : a novel / Lisa Howorth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howorth, Lisa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women journalists--Fiction.

Women journalists.

Sexually abused boys.

Cold cases (Criminal investigation)--Fiction.

Cold cases (Criminal investigation).

Sexually abused boys--Fiction.

Murder--Investigation--Fiction.

Murder.

Murder--Investigation.

Genre:

Fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Physical Description:

325 pages : illustration ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2014.

Summary:

"Mary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter couldn't resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. A suspect to whom nothing would stick. A neighborhood riddled with secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit authorities, had been able to solve the crime. Now, thirty years later, the reporter's call will reel a reluctant Mary Byrd from Mississippi back to Virginia where she must confront her family--and, once again, the murder's irremovable stain of tragedy. Lisa Howorth's remarkable Flying Shoes is a work of fiction, but the murder is based on the still-unsolved case of her stepbrother, a front page story in the Washington Post. And yet this is not a crime novel; it is an honest and luminous story of a particular time and place in the South, where even calamitous weather can be a character, everyone has a story, and all are inextricably entwined. With a flamboyant cast, splendid dark humor, a potent sense of history, and a shocking true story at its heart, Flying Shoes is a rich and candid novel from a fresh new southern voice about family and memory and one woman's flight from a wounded past"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781620403013

1620403013

OCLC:

862148954