ordinary grace: a novel  <b><i>new york times </i>bestseller<br /> winner of the 2014 edgar award for best novel<br /> winner of the 2014 dilys award<br /> a <i>school library journal </i>best book of 2013</b><br /> <br /><b>from <i>new york times </i>bestselling author william kent krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961.</b><br /><br /><i>“that was it. that was all of it. a grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. yet i have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” </i><br /><br />new bremen, minnesota, 1961. the twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of halderson’s drugstore, and hot stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. it was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. but for thirteen-year-old frank drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. accident. nature. suicide. murder. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />told from frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, <i>ordinary grace</i> 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.