Lacy Eye
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4.1 • 37 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A haunting, evocative novel about a woman who might have to face the disturbing truth about her own daughter.
Hanna and Joe send their awkward daughter Dawn off to college hoping that she will finally "come into her own." When she brings her new boyfriend, Rud, to her sister's wedding, her parents try to suppress their troubling impressions of him for Dawn's sake. Not long after, Hanna and Joe suffer a savage attack at home, resulting in Joe's death and Hanna's severe injury and memory loss.
Rud is convicted of the crime, and the community speculates that Dawn may also have been involved. When Rud wins an appeal and Dawn returns to live in the family home, Hanna resolves to recall that traumatic night so she can testify in the retrial, exonerate her daughter, and keep her husband's murderer in jail.
But as those memories resurface, Hanna faces the question of whether she knows her own daughter-and whether she ever did.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this deftly plotted psychological thriller from Treadway (And Give You Peace), a brutal home invasion leaves Hanna Schutt permanently disfigured and her husband, Joe, dead. The speech-impaired Hanna communicates to the police, via what the press dubs "the Nods," that the culprit is Rud Petty, the boyfriend of her younger daughter, Dawn. This, in addition to circumstantial evidence, leads to Petty's conviction. Three years later, Petty has won an appeal, and Hanna is terrified the case will hinge on her faulty memory. College-age Dawn always an awkward child who was teased mercilessly for her lazy eye returns to the family home in upstate New York for the first time since the tragedy. It's common knowledge the prosecution sought to indict her for her role in the attack, but charges wouldn't stick. Hanna must learn to separate her fierce love for her daughter and the slowly emerging truth about that fateful night. Treadway paints a devastating portrait of a family torn apart from both the outside and within. Five-city author tour.
Customer Reviews
Good read
The book was really good and sad...I gave it a 4 bc it was a short book that I finished too fast...I like long stories!!
Fully engaging...
...from the beginning to the end. The characters were described in ways that made you see & understand them, even when the narrator saw them differently,
I loved and understood the narrator and saw & related to her need to close her eyes to the faults of people she loved.
Buy this book and if you don't end up loving it, look me up and I'll give you five bucks :)