Bent Road: A Novel

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Lori Roy does an outstanding job of bringing American Gothic to life in this novel of secrets, lies and despair in the Heartland of America. This book was easy to read, and although some reviewers noted that it needed a good editor, that didn't bother me too much. This address within the Airdrie South ward showed a higher-than-average concentration of retired residents - 22% of the resident population. Besides being a fabulous read, Bent Road had the honor of rescuing me from the tedious read that The Gathering has thus far been. Both books talk about farm life in a small community (Bent Road in Kansas, Dark Places in Missouri), where something terrible has happened.

But she seems to appear again in the form of Little Evie Scott, her niece and a dead ringer for Eve. Once they get back to Kansas things are not any better, and in fact much worse because the problems they face here are personal; family secrets, some that have been been buried for 20 years, others more recent. The point of view shifts around ineffectively, in some cases the same scene is described -- ploddingly -- by about four different people; I'm ready to move on, but wait, let's have yet another character describe the same scene.You can also see the line where the grand avenue of trees lead from the Palace up to the Duke’s hunting lodge at Chatelherault.

In general, inner-city areas show high concentrations of people aged 18-30, suburbs show larger numbers of small children and adults aged 30-50, and rural and small towns are more popular with older workers and retirees. This address within the Hamilton South ward had a larger than average concentration of residents that were in full-time employment - 58% of the resident population.Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. To me a four star rating means that, though this story will never be an everlasting favorite, nor is it full of profound truths and lessons I will always remember (a five-star rating is reserved for those very few stories that produce those factors), to me it is EXTRA FINE.