
You pick it up and read the first page, and then the second, and you are hooked.

It will stay with you for quite some time and you will always remember it with a smile., Once in a blue moon a book drops down on your desk that demands to be read. Such a book is Ordinary Grace …This is a book that makes the reader feel better just by having been exposed to the delights of the story. In Frank Drum's journey away from the shores of childhood-a journey from which he can never return-we recognize the heartbreaking price of adulthood and its 'wisdoms.' I loved this book., Once in a blue moon a book drops down on your desk that demands to be read. But Ordinary Grace, a new novel from William Kent Krueger, is both, and it is affecting., eoe Ordinary Grace is engaging from the first page, a quiet novel that unfurls its sad story slowly, but eloquently, leaving its mark on your heart.e, Pitch-perfect, wonderfully evocative. Though the tone is quiet, Krueger artfully layered the story with suspenseful examinations of family life, death, fury, spiritual fiber and redemption.e, Not often does a story feel at once fresh and familiar.

In Frank Drum's journey away from the shores of childhood-a journey from which he can never return-we recognize the heartbreaking price of adulthood and its 'wisdoms.' I loved this book., eoeTheree(tm)s such a quiet beauty in his prose and such depth to his characters that I was completely captivated by this booke(tm)s ordinary grace.e, Everything about this book, from language to ideas to Aeschylus's epigram is beautiful and you'll think about it long after you're finished reading., eoeBesides being a terrific story that examines a powerful range of human experiences and emotions, it was the authentic voice of the teenage narrator, Frank Drum, that kept me reading late into the night.

Done(tm)t take the title too literally, for Krueger has produced something that is anything but ordinary.e, A pitch-perfect, wonderfully evocative examination of violent loss. EoeA thoughtful literary mystery that is wholly compelling and will appeal to fans of Dennis Lehane and Tom Franklin.
