Billie W. reviewed on 5/30/2011 + 5 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 6

I finished this book a few minutes ago and am already bereft that it isnt there for me to return to this afternoon. I typically prefer a linear story - or thought I did. I guess any writer can do that; but it takes a true master to so successfully weave the present into the past into the present as Tom Franklin has done here. The result is as intricately beautiful as a French braid. I'm going to have to track down which book actually won the Edgar Award for Best Novel (for which this book was nominated). It is difficult to imagine there was a better one in 2010 - or just about any other year in recent literary history. I have one bookcase (in a home lined with bookshelves on all three floors) where I keep "my classics" -- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is already there.

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