Larry had a secret friend when he was younger – a black boy his age named Silas who lived with his mother in a cabin on the back of the Ott’s property. In high school, he was accused of murdering a high school girl whose body was never found, and now another girl in the area has gone missing. Larry Ott, forty-one, white, single and still living in his boyhood home, has always been a social outcast. Don’t you just love discovering a new author via a really good book? Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is a really good book.Ī word about the title: according to the author in the epigraph, southern children are taught to spell “Mississippi” as “M, I, crooked letter, crooked letter, I, crooked letter, crooked letter, I, humpback, humpback, I.” Although the title may not resonate with northerners, it seems like an apt choice once you read the book.
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