Nuanced with unsentimental empathy, Deer Season delivers a literary mystery that will leave readers thinking about these characters and their story long after turning the last page. “Flanagan takes clear-eyed aim at the foibles and strengths of the human heart, ultimately plumbing its tenderness through characters whose lives in Middle America are deftly rendered through a riveting plot. That it’s compelling, fun, and highly readable is simply the cherry on top.”-Xhenet Aliu, author of Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories She also does it with grace and humor, and without fetishizing or parodying her Nebraskan characters. Its the opening weekend of deer season in Gunthrum, Nebraska, in 1985, and Alma Costagans intellectually disabled farmhand, Hal Bullard, has gone hunting with some of the locals. Listen to bestselling audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. “Flanagan subverts the traditional whodunit by pointing the reader not just to multiple suspects but, more importantly and humanely, to the many victims of a single act of violence. Listen to Deer Season by Erin Flanagan with a free trial. This is fiction at its finest.”-Melissa Fraterrigo, author of Glory Days This book does not just return us to a forgotten place and time it recreates it for us. “With incisive prose and finely wrought tension, Deer Season is an absorbing tale of a small town that is both severed and knitted together by tragedy. "This is a standout novel of small-town life, powered by the characters' consequential determination to protect their loved ones at any cost."- Publishers Weekly, starred review
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