Product Information
A big, moving, critically acclaimed novel of one tight-knit Texas community and the events that alter its residents' lives forever. Friendswood, Texas, is a small Gulf Coast town of church suppers, high school football games , oil rigs on the horizon, and hurricane weather. When tragedy rears its head with an industrial leak that kills and sickens residents, it pulls on the common thread that runs through the community, intensifying everything. From a confused fifteen-year-old girl beset by visions, to a high school football star tormented by his actions, to a mother galvanized by the death of her teen daughter, to a morally bankrupt father trying to survive his mistakes, Rene Steinke explores what happens when families are trapped in the ambiguity of history's missteps-when the actions of a few change the lives and well-being of many. Driving the narrative powerfully forward is the suspenseful question of the fates of four Friendswood families, and Steinke's striking insight and empathy. Inspired in part by the town where she herself grew up, this layered, propulsive, psychologically complex story brings to vivid life a tight-knit Texas community and the events that alter its residents' lives forever.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Putnam INC International Concepts
ISBN-139781594633836
eBay Product ID (ePID)213551388
Product Key Features
Book TitleFriendswood: a Novel
AuthorRene Steinke
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2015
Dimensions
Item Height210mm
Item Width140mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorRene Steinke
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States