November Road
Book description
Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desperate cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America-a story of unexpected connections, daring possibilities, and the hope of second chances from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Long and Faraway Gone.
Frank Guidry's luck has finally…
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November Road, for me, is a book of people. Each character struggles with morality in their own way.
Frank Guidry, the central character, is a fixer, and sometimes a little more if it means saving himself. Guidry’s big, easy life in New Orleans is about to change. He knows it instinctively, he’s in danger, and he has to run. Charlotte Roy must also run to take her two young daughters and flee from an alcoholic husband and a suffocating life.
They meet on the road, and Guidry finds what he’s always been looking for in Charlotte, a reason to live,…
You would not think that a book about a sleazy (but incredibly handsome) man being chased by a hired killer would be an inspiring book about second chances, but it is. The story is set in November 1963. Frank Guidry is inadvertently involved in the Kennedy assassination and the powers that be want to shut him up. He’s running from a killer and he runs into Charlotte Roy, a young mother who, with her two daughters, is fleeing her alcoholic husband. They both have a lot of internal demons to grapple with, but along the way there’s a lot of…
From Susan's list on second chances, from an author her fifth chance.
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