ordinary grace by william kent krueger summary

Krueger has said that he wanted to be a writer from the third grade, when his story 'The Walking Dictionary' was praised by his teacher and parents. Only one other author has done this since the award's inception in 1986. In 20, he won back-to-back Anthony Awards for best novel. The series is set mainly in Minnesota, USA. William Kent Krueger is an American author and crime writer, best known for the 13 novels of his Cork O'Connor series of books, ending with Tamarack County in 2013. Awards-Anthony Award's Best Novel (twice) Anthony Award's Best First Novel Loft-McKnight Award.

Education-Stanford University (no degree).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 Grace is 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.

Ordinary grace by william kent krueger summary