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    Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel
    Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel
    Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel
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    Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel

    By Tom Franklin

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    “The classic trifecta of talent, heart, and a bone-deep sense of storytelling….A masterful performance, deftly rendered and deeply satisfying. For days on end, I woke with this story on my mind.” —David Wroblewski

    A powerful and resonant novel from the critically acclaimed author of Smonk and Hell at the Breech, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter tells the riveting story of two boyhood friends, torn apart by circumstance, who are brought together again by a terrible crime in a small Mississippi town. An extraordinary novel that seamlessly blends elements of crime and Southern literary fiction, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is a must for readers of Larry Brown, Pete Dexter, Ron Rash, and Dennis Lehane.

    In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the county—and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town.

    More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they've buried and ignored for decades.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 5, 2010
    ISBN9780062048745
    Author

    Tom Franklin

    Tom Franklin is the New York Times bestselling author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award. His previous works include Poachers, Hell at the Breech, and Smonk. He teaches in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.

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    • 4/5
      Silas and Larry were once friends for a short time, though one was white and one was black. Larry's life is forever changed after he goes on a date with a girl who is never seen again. Silas and Larry's lives cross paths again many years later. The book is really well written, and though some things are foreshadowed, I was still surprised by some twists and turns. The inner of lives of Larry and Silas are very well handled, and you also get to meet a cast of secondary characters. My heart went out to Larry, especially the more I learned about him--though I also understood his treatment by the community. I also really identified with Silas, although of course he turns out to be imperfect. Aren't we all? So many lives so tarnished forever by things that could have so easily been different. And yet.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed it but not as much as I hoped I would.
    • 4/5
      Oh my dear Lord, this book is so fantastic. I literally stayed up all night reading this. I could not get enough of this story and they way Mr Franklin weaves his story with the South flowing through it all of it's glory made this un-put-downable.[return][return]Highly recommended for those who love a good Southern story or loves a good mystery.
    • 5/5
      Do NOT miss this book. Wow. One of the best stories I've read.... brings to mind some of Stephen King's early stuff (and not just because Main Character #1 was an avid reader). Recommended to me by a respected patron - I hope he writes more and as well.
    • 5/5
      A black boy and a white boy enjoy an abbreviated friendship until life's harsh realities force them apart. Years later their lives become entwined again and how one of them deals with their history provides the foundation for a highly-satisfying mystery set in rural Mississippi. Great characters and rich narrative.
    • 4/5
      Reads quickly, entertaining, but predictable.
    • 4/5
      A slow moving mystery, we follow two men who were boyhood friends, one black and one white. Since the 1970s were not the time and Mississippi was not the place for such a friendship they had to keep it secret as they met in the woods. The black man, Silas nicknamed 32, went on to become a police officer and the white man followed his father and became a car mechanic. When Larry was accused of the murder of a young woman, Silas investigates quietly and unofficially to clear his friend.Full of the anger and bigotry caused by poverty found the South, this book shows what can happen when the nature of a man, not his color, is appreciated and the truth can be revealed.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book. I had picked the book up because I needed a title that had repeated words, I'm so glad I bought this one.

      Larry Ott is too smart, too "sissyish" for his father who wants Larry to be more like him. He's also not popular at school so when a girl asks him out he jumps at the chance. Problem is that the girl never returns home after the date and the small town people think he had something to do with her disappearance. Silas is an African-American (I probably should have added this is in a small town in the South which is why is ethnicity matters to this story) who is a constable for the District. He's come back after many years of living "Up North" (Northern Mississippi that is). He's having a hard time coming to terms with the friendship he had with Larry when they were younger.

      If you want a book more about life and motivations than of murder this is a book for you but if you want a hard-driving, thriller you may want to try something else. I will be reading more by Tom Franklin.
    • 4/5
      This was the 3rd book I have read by Tom Franklin. He deals with a small town in southeast Mississippi in this story. It concerns 2 childhood friends who 25 years later confront the clash of the present and past. This book is a murder mystery but less on the mystery side and more the character development side. Franklin makes you feel the small town South of the past and the present in an excellent way. You can see the rusted cars, closed down businesses, and dysfunctional people unfolding. This book moved slowly but definitely picked up steam towards the end. Franklin is a very descriptive writer but he seems to do this so you can sense of the place about which he writes. This style can be difficult in a very long novel, but it works here. If you have not read any Tom Franklin, I recommend this book as a good introduction.
    • 4/5
      Loved this mystery!
    • 5/5
      I loved this book. The structure is perfect, the characters compassionately and truly portrayed, the suspense tight, the language never running away with itself and at times so lovely I had to re-read it.This is a novel about a quiet hero who is misunderstood by his family and shunned by his community, though he has never hurt a soul, a man who is kind to chickens. It is a novel about another man who is haunted by a choice he made when young, understandable at the time, but which blighted the life of another. And at the end, I cried because the ending was perfect.My older daughter came to read over my shoulder, wanting to find out what all the fuss was about. “You’d have to read the book,” I said, “otherwise it won’t make sense that I’m crying.” Then she mocked me with an imitation of my boo-ing and hoo-ing, and I can’t get mad over that. I know I am not a pretty sight when I weep over a book.I was curious to read this novel right after American Rust because they have elements in common. Both revolve around a murder and the unlikely friendship between two boys, one a reader, the other an athlete in an economically faltering, single industry area. The setting is different, the rust belt vs the American south, and the literary approach is very different.No stream of consciousness for Tom Franklin. (Before I go on, I have to tell you that a part of me just wants to jump up and down and say, oh it’s so good! Read it!) He superbly uses third person narrative to shift between the perspectives of Larry Ott and his one-time friend, Silas Jones, currently a police officer in Mississippi. That Larry is white and Silas black complicated their friendship in the 1970′s, and that complication had long-term and painful consequences. Franklin also shifts in time between the present and the past, gradually and tantalizingly unraveling two related mysteries, a girl gone missing in 1982 and another in the present day.I read it breathlessly, unable to put it down. Though I guessed at some of the revelations before they came, that didn’t matter because what I really wanted to know was whether wrongs would be righted, whether people could outgrow their old limitations, if they would get the time to do so or if death would get them first. The book is rather shorter than American Rust. At 237 pages it wasted not a word. It’s a tight book and a fabulous one. Just have a look at the opening paragraphs: "The Rutherford girl had been missing for eight days when Larry Ott returned home and found a monster waiting in his house. It’d stormed the night before over much of the Southeast, flash floods on the news, trees snapped in half and pictures of trailer homes twisted apart. Larry, forty-one years old and single, lived alone in rural Mississippi in his parents’ house, which was now his house, though he couldn’t bring himself to think of it that way. He acted more like a curator, keeping the rooms clean, answering the mail and paying bills, turning on the television at the right times and smiling with the laugh tracks, eating his McDonald’s or Kentucky Fried Chicken to what the networks presented him and then sitting on his front porch as the day bled out of the trees across the field and night settled in, each different, each the same."
    • 4/5
      This was my first read of Tom Franklin. Now to find the rest of his books. I am not from Mississippi, but would like to be. Even Faulkner would like this one. The characters well defined and believable.
    • 2/5
      Quite well written, however it lacks suspense - plot easy to predict.
    • 4/5
      I thought the first half to two thirds of the book was brilliant. The resolution was lovely but not brilliant. It's earned it's place in "Southern Gothic" but just barely due to the resolution.
    • 4/5
      Reading progress update: I've read 274 out of 274 pages. Definitely sped through the last 60 or so pages! I was not ready for it to end.
      I enjoyed this book a lot. I liked the way that the story was told from the perspective of the two main characters. This book touched on some issues such as racism and inter racial relationships but it was not too heavy. The author was able to carefully and beautifully weave beautiful story telling, sensitive issues, and even a bit of mystery.
    • 4/5
      Murder mystery in the south in small town. Well written as it follows a quiet, lonely mechanic, and his former childhood friend who is now a sheriff.
    • 1/5
      More violence than I care for
    • 4/5
      Good story, but too too too many words to get to some points. Liked the story very much- just took FOREVER to read. Would I recommend it? Sure. Why not?
    • 4/5
      This is a mystery that takes place in Mississippi. It seems to be an above average story. I believe I got this book as a free Kindle Ebook. There were grammar and spelling errors.
    • 4/5
      Wonderful book. Not a "whodunnit" in the traditional sense. More of a relationship story between two people, and the long term damaging effects of being ostracized and lonely. I don't read many mysteries but this was well worth the effort. Couldn't put it down.
    • 5/5
      Really liked this one. As a mystery, I thought it was well mapped out, and Franklin does a nice job of turning it from a whodunit (since we're pretty sure who the culprit is halfway in) into a whydthetownblameitonthatguydunit. As a Southern gothic tale, the novel is a keen observant of contemporary American life in the South—well aware of the faults and critical of them, but also very much concerned with the welfare of the people in the story.

      If anything, though, I think Franklin did an outstanding job in painting the nuances in the relationship with the two protagonists, one a black member of law enforcement and the other white outcast. The grit and grace is here.
    • 2/5
      Do you like watching glaciers move? Like, in real-time? Are you a German teacher of English? Do you hate someone very much? (You can even combine the last two!) Congratulations, this book is especially for you! I actually enjoy a good story, lavishly told in good time. Me possibly drinking coffee or wine and enjoying myself, even losing myself inside a story told slowly, delightfully, perhaps playfully. The story-telling here is mooooooooostly slooooooooow. Just slow. Not lavish, not delightful, not playful, just plain old slow. Now, slow food? Good stuff! Fast food only makes me fat anyway. Slow food doesn’t mean I have to enjoy chewing on a piece of granite – or reading this book. ‘f slows the only prob, things mighta haven’t look so bleak. Ain't just that, sirree, naw. The language. South’rn drawl my ass. Short sentences. Clipped sentences, eh? Yeah, boy, might work. If yall are proper pen pushers, heh?! Franklin, ma boy, you ain’t a one. Ok, enough of this. It’s really annoying. I really, really hated those clipped sentences. They read like they hated their literary life for being, well, emaciated. Well, all of that could still have been forgiven (I can almost see the small teaching, pupil-hating, glacier-watching demographic from the introduction nod their approval!) but let’s take a look at the story itself: Young Larry (40 today) goes on a date, girl goes missing, people start hating Larry, apart from his “special friend” Silas and even more special Wallace Stringfellow. The former being a sorry excuse for a friend, the latter being worse. At the very beginning, poor Larry gets shot and Silas goes up and down memory lane for about 80% of the book, inspecting their miserable, boring lives in the past. Discovering “shocking” truths and a body. (Not, two, though. The mystery that all but ruined Larry’s life never gets solved.) The first words in chapter seven are basically a clue bat I, unfortunately, didn’t fully appreciate: “IT WAS 1982.” Yes, and we’re at 41% of the book and feeling like we’ve had to wade through decades of boredom but, wait, those guys are about 40 and no point whatsoever has been reached or made so far – we're not safe yet, with decades before us yet! (Had I realised earlier and not only now, in hindsight, or given in to my instincts about bad books I might have preferred to watch grass grow but, alas, that exciting exercise has to wait for a worse book.) Still chapter seven (did I mention those chapters can take an hour or more of a fast reader’s time? (not to speak of the poor sod’s life!)): “IT WAS THE slowest week of his life,” man, you’re taking the words right out of my mouth. Anyway, why did I even finish this turd? Well, truth to be told, my daughter has to read this book for school and being the stupid oaf I’m sometimes maligned to be, I mouthed off to her about how good this book must be, having great reviews on Goodreads and how she should just get reading it! Sorry, my dear Schn..., I’m sure to do it again but for this book you have my sympathy. Drink, have fun with grass, do whatever you want with your life but don’t make people read this book. Oh, and if you really are a German teacher of English, I’m presenting you with a list of seven (because I can!) books better suited for your intended purpose which won’t make your pupils hate you (even more, at least): - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens - Beartown by Fredrick Backman - Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - The Universe versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence - The Nightingale or The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
    • 3/5
      I liked the book and definitely the character development, but I found the mystery very predictable. I'd like to give it 3.5 stars, it just wasn't 4 stars in my rating.
    • 5/5
      If read as a mystery, Crooked Letter might be a disappointment. But if read as a dramatic, suspenseful Southern novel of friendship, youth, race and fear, it was excellent. Two missing girls, twenty years apart, and two boys, one black and one white, and a timeline that shifts easily back and forth, had me on the edge of my seat. The story is achingly sad but ultimately hopeful and the characters very well-drawn. So much so that I would have liked to have had an epilogue to see the story played out a few months or years down the road.My thanks to HarperCollins for providing an ARC of this wonderful book.

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    • 3/5
      Really did not see anything special about this at all.
    • 4/5
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    • 5/5
      So well written! Rural Mississippi, in the late 70's but here it may as well be the late 50's. Hot, dusty, dangerous friendships.......a 5 Star read
    • 4/5
      If nothing else, the author has accomplished one thing with this novel – I have never felt such anger and disgust for a fictional character as I did for one of the characters here. The why is spoiler territory, so I’ll put that at the end of the review with a warning. But the fact that I felt so strongly speaks to the story and character building that the author has created here. He made these people live for me.

      The beginning of the story is mostly action, and it is not until you get further in and the backstory kicks in that you begin to understand and care for the characters. As a result, the beginning is a slow read and I didn’t connect with the characters right away. Because it was also a bit sad, I was tempted to set the book aside. But then I became acquainted with the characters and I read the middle of the book almost to the end without stopping. I’ll admit I had trouble with some of the dialogue used. I’ve never so much as visited Mississippi so I can’t claim first hand knowledge, but I find it difficult to believe a character would be able to get through college without learning to construct grammatically correct sentences.

      But overall this was an enjoyable read and I recommend it to those who like what is termed “literary mysteries”.


      *** Spoiler Warning *** The following contains spoilers for the end of the book.

      The character who infuriated me was Silas (32), once it was revealed he had known of Larry’s innocence all along. For him to sit on the information he had was (to me at least) unforgivable. And I mean that literally. He not only let a murderer go free, he sentenced a supposed friend (not to mention brother) to a miserable, friendless existence for over a quarter of a century. If you ask me Larry had a fairly miserable life even before he was shunned by the entire town as a rapist and murderer. And he was such a kind, innocent soul – he didn’t deserve to be treated as he was. I sincerely wanted to crawl inside this book and punch Silas right in the face. And I didn’t care he tried to do the right thing in the end. I didn’t care that he finally told the truth. I wanted him to suffer some kind of punishment, so it was all the more annoying to me when everyone treated him as a hero. Silas laying side by side with Larry in that hospital room, and all the people trooping in to see Silas, caring about Silas, saying he was a hero, don’t worry about work, you’ll still get your pay. Grrrr! What about Larry? No one cared about him, no one came to visit, no one cared he’d basically lost his way to earn a living. And all that was due to Silas.
    • 4/5
      (originally reviewed on 2-2-11)I love southern fiction, and I was especially interested in reading this book as the setting is in southeastern Mississippi, which is close to where I live now in Mobile, Alabama. I use to read a lot more mysteries than I read now, particularly in the early 1990s, but I’m not a fan of gritty content, so I’ve drifted more into literary fiction over the years. I was pleasantly relieved, when, for the most part, this book turned out to be more character driven and written in a literary style without the typical gory descriptions of many modern novels. It’s a page turner and I read it pretty much straight through.The two main characters are Larry (white), called ‘Scary Larry’ by the locals, and Silas (black), the local policeman. Growing up, the two were friends for a time when they lived in close proximity to each other. Then when Larry was in high school, he was accused by the community of killing a girl after a date, although the body was never found and Larry was never formally charged. Due to all this, Larry lives a lonely life in almost total isolation, with only his books (mostly horror) to keep him company.Fast forward about 20 years and now another girl is missing. Naturally, the police consider Larry ‘a person of interest’ in the case, and Silas, his old boyhood friend, must get involved in trying to solve the girl’s disappearance.This book is about a lot more than just the mysteries of the two girls’ disappearances. It’s about race, class, friendship, and family. I enjoyed it and would definitely read another book by this author, especially if Silas were one of the characters.
    • 4/5
      Character-study mystery focusing on life in a small town

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