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In the winter of 1897, Elspeth Howell treks across miles of snow and ice to the isolated farmstead in upstate New York where she and her husband have raised their five children. Her midwife's salary is tucked into the toes of her boots, and her pack is full of gifts for her family. But as she crests the final hill, and sees her darkened house and a smokeless chimney, immediately she knows that an unthinkable crime has destroyed the life she so carefully built.
Her lone comfort is her twelve-year-old son, Caleb, who joins her in mourning the tragedy and planning its reprisal. Their long journey leads them to a rough-hewn lake town, defined by the violence both of its landscape and of its inhabitants. There Caleb is forced into a brutal adulthood, as he slowly discovers truths about his family he never suspected, and Elspeth must confront the terrible urges and unceasing temptations that have haunted her for years. Throughout it all, the love between mother and son serves as the only shield against a merciless world.
A scorching portrait of guilt and lost innocence, atonement and retribution, resilience and sacrifice, pregnant obsession and primal adolescence, The Kept is told with deep compassion and startling originality, and introduces James Scott as a major new literary voice.
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- Title The Kept
- Author James Scott
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper, New York
- Date 2014-01
- ISBN 9780062236739 / 0062236733
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 6.4 x 1.24 in (23.44 x 16.26 x 3.15 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Topical: Country/Cowboy
- Topical: Library Reads
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Revenge
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013027875
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.6
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Citations
- Booklist, 11/15/2013, Page 26
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/15/2013, Page 0
- Library Journal, 01/01/2014, Page 103
- New York Times Book Review, 03/15/2015, Page 28
- Publishers Weekly, 11/11/2013, Page 0
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