Ordinary Grace is March's Book of the Month
About the Book
“That
was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at
all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was
spoken forgotten a single word.”
New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The
Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling
out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic
books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time
of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for
thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death
visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide.
Murder.
Frank begins the season
preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy
unexpectedly strikes his family—which includes his Methodist minister
father; his passionate, artistic mother; Juilliard-bound older sister;
and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother—he finds himself thrust into an
adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly
called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years.
Told from Frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace
is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his
young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling
apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the
terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.
Winner of the 2014 Edgar Award for Best Novel
Winner of the 2014 Anthony Award for Best Novel
Winner of the 2014 Barry Award for Best Novel
Winner of the 2014 Macavity Award for Best Mystery
Winner of the 2014 Anthony Award for Best Novel
Winner of the 2014 Barry Award for Best Novel
Winner of the 2014 Macavity Award for Best Mystery
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