Flyover Fiction #: Deer Season

Flyover Fiction #: Deer Season
Erin Flanagan
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Trade Paperback
h216 x 140mm - 320pg
1 Sep 2021 US
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9781496226815
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It' s the opening weekend of deer season in Gunthrum, Nebraska, in 1985, and Alma Costagan' s intellectually disabled farmhand, Hal Bullard, has gone hunting with some of the locals, leaving her in a huff. That same weekend, a teenage girl goes missing, and Hal returns with a flimsy story about the blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight. When the situation escalates from that of a missing girl to something more sinister, Alma and her husband are forced to confront what Hal might be capable of, as rumors fly and townspeople see Hal' s violent past in a new light. A drama about the complicated relationships connecting the residents of a small-town farming community, Deer Season explores troubling questions about how far people will go to safeguard the ones they love and what it means to be a family.

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"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 "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 book does not just return us to a forgotten place and time; it recreates it for us. This is fiction at its finest. "-Melissa Fraterrigo, author of Glory Days "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. She also does it with grace and humor, and without fetishizing or parodying her Nebraskan characters. . . . That it' s compelling, fun, and highly readable is simply the cherry on top. "-Xhenet Aliu, author of Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories "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. . . . 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. "-Jess Montgomery, author of the Kinship series of historical mysteries
Erin Flanagan is a professor at Wright State University. She is the author of two short story collections, The Usual Mistakes (Nebraska, 2005) and It' s Not Going to Kill You, and Other Stories (Bison Books, 2013).
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781496226815
Published: 1 Sep 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 320

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