Bent Road

By Lori Roy

Book Overview

"A remarkably assured debut novel. Rich and evocative, Lori Roy's voice is a welcome addition to American fiction." -Dennis Lehane For twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death. As a young man, Arthur fled his small Kansas hometown, moved to Detroit, married Celia, and never looked back. But when the 1967 riots frighten him even more than his past, he convinces Celia to pack up their family and return to the road he grew up on, Bent Road, and that same small town where Eve mysteriously died. While Arthur and their oldest daughter slip easily into rural life, Celia and the two younger children struggle to fit in. Daniel, the only son, is counting on Kansas to make a man of him since Detroit damn sure didn't. Eve-ee, the youngest and small for her age, hopes that in Kansas she will finally grow. Celia grapples with loneliness and the brutality of life and death on a farm. And then a local girl disappears, catapulting the family headlong into a dead man's curve... On Bent Road, a battered red truck cruises ominously along the prairie; a lonely little girl dresses in her dead aunt's clothes; a boy hefts his father's rifle in search of a target; a mother realizes she no longer knows how to protect her children. It is a place where people learn: Sometimes killing is the kindest way. Watch a Video

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525951830
• ISBN13: 9780525951834
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Boring! Has animal cruelty in it and doesn't ever get to any point until the last chapter. I had

Boring! Has animal cruelty in it that made me sick to even think about! The book doesn't ever get to any real point until the last chapter and it was nothing worth reading. I had to skim most of it and had thoughts of throwing it against the wall just to be done with it! Has no depth whatsoever. I will never read anything from this author again. The children characters were weird and absurdly Sociopathic in their overall thinking process. Don't waste your money on this loser.