I listened to this book on CD's and just finished. It is a strange story, sort of like a modern day Crime and Punishment. I continue to admire Jesse Kellerman's writing even if I didn't enjoy this book as I did the last one of his I read, The Genius. Kirby Heybourne does a great reading. His voic...
“As a child I dreamed of becoming a writer. My father did not approve. ‘These are not the ambitions of a man,’ he told me. He liked to beat me with a rake, or sometimes a trellis. When he was in a bad mood, he would pick up my infant sister and use her to beat me. He called this ‘saving time.’ Of...
The home number she’d given me rang indefinitely, and her cell phone went straight to voicemail. I left two messages the afternoon I received Victor’s second letter, and two more the next day. Fearing I was becoming a pest, I waited an agonizing twenty-four hours before calling her at work. She s...