This prequel<\/a> to the Cork O\u2019Connor series by this author is a really wonderful book. It deals with so much: father\/son relationships, Native American Indian lore, mystery, suspicion, and youthful coming of age. One of the best summer reads! Highly recommend.<\/p>\nAbout the book:<\/p>\n
“Aurora is a small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the shores of Minnesota\u2019s Iron Lake. In the summer of 1963, it is the whole world to twelve-year-old Cork O\u2019Connor, its rhythms as familiar as his own heartbeat. But when Cork stumbles upon the body of a man he revered hanging from a tree in an abandoned logging camp, it is the first in a series of events that will cause him to question everything he took for granted about his hometown, his family, and himself.Cork\u2019s father, Liam O\u2019Connor, is Aurora\u2019s sheriff and it is his job to confirm that the man\u2019s death was the result of suicide, as all the evidence suggests. In the shadow of his father\u2019s official investigation, Cork begins to look for answers on his own. Together, father and son face the ultimate test of choosing between what their heads tell them is true and what their hearts know is right.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fran’s review: This prequel to the Cork O\u2019Connor series by this author is a really wonderful book. It deals with so much: father\/son relationships, Native American Indian lore, mystery, suspicion, and youthful coming of age. One of the best summer reads! Highly recommend. About the book: “Aurora is a small town nestled in the ancient…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":143957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-staff-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lightning-Strike.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-BrS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143956"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143964,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143956\/revisions\/143964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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