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“An epic novel about and fortune in contemporary America…Puzo is a gifted writer…a lusty chronicler of our times whose writing style bulldozes its way through pretense and hypocrisy.”
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“An epic novel about and fortune in contemporary America…Puzo is a gifted writer…a lusty chronicler of our times whose writing style bulldozes its way through pretense and hypocrisy.”
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Appearance can be deceiving, but the truth can be deadly…let the confession begin.
When a rock star, a fashion designer, a software tycoon and a millionaire heiress are all murdered in mysterious circumstances, Detective Lindsay Boxer is quickly assigned to the high-profile investigation.
Jimmy Conway always wanted to be famous. As a teenager he even stashed away a series of letters advising his future self on how to handle all the fame and fortune coming his way. And so when he’s reunited wih these rather embracing predictions in his mid-thirties he can’t help feeling he must be a bit of a disappointment to himself.
Many lives and stories interest in this compelling novel: the passionate Mattie Jones bears a horrifying secret; Tama Mananui makes the most of an arranged marriage with a woman twenty years older; Nani Paora holds the key to the past and a history filled with bloodshed: and his grandson Pene may well be the key to future.
He always travelled to work under an assumed name, though typically it was one he never changed. In later years, when he retired and it became public knowledge, there came a time when schoolchildren would dance around concrete playgrounds singing of his fabled false identity and the case which made him, as one newspaper tactlessly put it, ‘hang up his hat’.
Fiona Sweeney wants to do something that matters, and she chooses to make her mark in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya. By helping to start a traveling library, she hopes to bring the words of Homer, Hemingway, and Dr. Seuss to far-flung tiny communities where people live daily with drought, hunger, and disease. Her intentions are honorable, and her rules are firm: due to the limited number of donated books, if any one of them is not returned, the bookmobile will not return.
But, encumbered by her Western values, Fi does not understand the people she seeks to help. And in the impoverished small community of Mididima, she finds herself caught in the middle of a volatile local struggle when the bookmobile’s presence sparks a dangerous feud between the proponents of modernization and those who fear the loss of traditional ways.
The memories, surprises and forced conversations prompted by the close confines of the drive reveal more about the compromises of their shared life than they would care to confess.
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