Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize
2011 · Fiction · Finalist
About This Book
In the 1970s. Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals in a small town in rural Mississippi. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry was the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, black single mother. But then Larry took a girl to a drive-in movie and she was never seen or heard from again. He never confessed ... and was never charged.
More than twenty years have passed. Larry lives a solitary, shunned existence, never able to rise above the whispers suspicion. Silas has become the town constable. And now another girl has disappeared, forcing two men who once called each other "friend" to confront a past they've buried for decades.
More than twenty years have passed. Larry lives a solitary, shunned existence, never able to rise above the whispers suspicion. Silas has become the town constable. And now another girl has disappeared, forcing two men who once called each other "friend" to confront a past they've buried for decades.
Awards
SIBA Book Award
2011 · Fiction · Finalist
ALA Notable Books
2011 · Fiction
Anthony Award
2011 · Novel · Nominee
Edgar Allan Poe Award
2011 · Novel · Nominee
Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction
2010 · Fiction · Winner
Indie Next
2010 · Starred Review
L.A. Times Book Prize
2010 · Mystery/Thriller · Winner
RT Reviewers Choice Award
2010 · Contemporary Mystery · Winner
