Our Mystery Lovers will meet on February 23rd at 7 pm on Zoom to discuss Krueger’s most recent novel.  You can register by emailing Beth Van Ness if you are not already part of this group.  All adults are welcome to join us.  You will receive the Zoom link just prior to the meeting.  bvanness@libraryconnection.info or bvanness@TownofCantonCT.org

New Bremen, Minnesota in the summer of 1961 is described as “a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president.”  “The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the counter of Holderson’s Drugstore and Hot Stuff  comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack.”

“Frank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family—which includes his Methodist minister father; his passionate, artistic mother; Juilliard-bound older sister; and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother—he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years.

Told from Frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.”