Carl Iverson is a Vietnam veteran with a friend who is convinced he was innocent of the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl. Joe’s assignment leads him to interviewing a convicted murderer who is in hospice from jail at a local nursing home. A lot of people want to read this book and I can see why. I’ve waited a few months for it to be available to borrow from my library through Overdrive. Soon after starting a school assignment to write a biography, he receives a call that his mom has been arrested and he has to take care of his brother.Ī friend from book club recommended this book and it has been on my to-read list for a while. By working hard and hiding money, he has been able to escape away to college, although he worries about his now 18-year-old brother’s welfare living with his mom and her sometimes-abusive boyfriends. His mother is bipolar and his little brother has autism. Joe Talbert is doing his best to get away from a bad situation. “No matter how hard you try, there are some things you just can’t run away from.” But in the end, there’s no hole deep enough.” He looked up at me. “I thought that by going to prison, I might silence my ghosts – bury that part of my life, those things I did in Vietnam. This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction on by Sarah Anne Carter
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