Another starkly beautiful novel about crime and pain in rural Virginia; there's vengeance at the end, but the novel is more about family and the difference between who we tell ourselves we are and who we are--the latter writ large because with gangsters the difference is such a chasm. Violent and brutal, and very worth reading, with an ending that seems more open-ended to me than the author maybe intended.
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The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings
This really just flat didn't work for me. I thought it was going to something other than it was, I guess. I should have taken a closer...

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