02671cam a2200337 4500 596032086 TxAuBib 20220529120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802159281 0802159281 B09B18S11B Amazon 3223aca3-d1fb-43bf-9d8b-6de3a4b59e5d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6455577 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib O'Nan, Stewart. Ocean State [Libby]. Grove Atlantic, 2022. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1360kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:<p><strong>Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O'Nan's latest is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do.</strong></p>In the first line of <i>Ocean State</i>, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. Angel, the murderer, Carol, her mother, and Birdy, the victim, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel's younger sister Marie, who reflects on that doomed autumn of 2009 with all the wisdom of hindsight. <p>Angel and Birdy love the same teenage boy, frantically and single mindedly, and are compelled by the intensity of their feelings to extremes neither could have anticipated. O'Nan's expert hand paints a fully realized portrait of these women, but also weaves a compelling and heartbreaking story of working-class life in Ashaway, Rhode Island. Propulsive, moving, and deeply rendered, <i>Ocean State</i> is a masterful novel by one of our greatest storytellers.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-28 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3223aca3-d1fb-43bf-9d8b-6de3a4b59e5d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3223aca3-d1fb-43bf-9d8b-6de3a4b59e5d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3223aca3-d1fb-43bf-9d8b-6de3a4b59e5d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)