num_pages: 385
description: This deftly written novel borrows its Dantesque title from an autobiographical graphic novel penned by its protagonist, comic book artist Daniel Stone. Like his main character, Stone grew up as a violent, alienated white outsider in an Alaskan Inuit community. Time, though, has been kind to him, and he now lives as an attentive, stay-at-home dad in Bethel, Maine. All that changes, however, when his 14-year-old daughter returns home after being raped at a party by her ex-boyfriend. With the news, Stone's emotional control dissolves and he begins a painful reentry into an inferno that he had left behind. The 13th novel by the author of Vanishing Acts and My Sister's Keeper measures up to its predecessors.
title: The Tenth Circle
titlecomplete: The Tenth Circle
characters: Laura Stone, Trixie Stone, Daniel Stone
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Drama, Young Adult, Adult, Chick Lit, Novels, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Adult Fiction
ratings_count: 128871
places: Alaska, Maine
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Lincoln Award
publisher: Atria Books