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October 2012 Book of the Month and eBook of the Month.
Through short chapters from the four key narrators this cleverly constructed, intensely emotional story explores the consequences of choice and the effects of family crisis. Fleeing an unexpectedly violent attack on a fellow student Sam is reunited with his father after years of estrangement. How Sam, Dwight along with his mother Ruth and childhood sweetheart Emma react to and deal with the crisis will change their lives. Set twelve years on from the haunting and powerful Reservation Road, Burnham Schwartz has the knack of absolutely capturing essences of American life.
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Northwest Corner Synopsis
Twelve years after a tragic accident and a cover-up that led to prison time, Dwight Arno, now fifty, is a man who has started over without exactly moving on. Living alone in California, haunted yet keeping his head down, Dwight manages a sporting goods store and dates a woman to whom he hasn't revealed the truth about his past. Then an unexpected arrival throws his carefully neutralized life into turmoil and exposes all that he's hidden.
Sam, Dwight's estranged college-age son, has shown up without warning, fleeing a devastating incident in his own life. In its way, Sam's sense of guilt is as crushing as his father's. As the two men are forced to confront their similar natures and their half-buried hopes for connection, they must also search for redemption and love. In turn, they dramatically transform the lives of the women around them: the ex-wives, mothers, and lovers they have turned to in their desperate attempts to somehow rewrite, outrun, or eradicate the past.
Told in the resonant voices of everyday people gripped in the emotional riptide of lived life, Northwest Corner is at once tough and heart-lifting, an urgent, powerful story about family bonds that can never be broken and the wayward roads that lead us back to those we love.
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