NINEMILE BENCH: a novel
Eleven miles past the barricade, one orchard is still green.
Six weeks after the fire, Emmett Cade drives around a road-closed sign to reach his injured wife. He finds a family rationing spring water out of a concrete tank with a jam jar and a pencil line, and a place at their table, and a list with his name near the bottom of it.
He stays to help. He is good with numbers, and there is a great deal here that does not add up.
A wound five weeks open that does not hurt. A man at the end of the hall on the two hundred and thirty-first day of burns that should have killed him in August. Three dogs that will not climb the stairs. A hook on the outside of a door.
Nobody in that house is lying to him. Nobody in that house is doing anything wrong. And the water tastes of ash and, under the ash, of pennies.
Ninemile Bench is a novel about mercy, arithmetic, and the exact moment a man stops being able to leave.
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