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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

Hannah Tinti

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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley was a National Bestseller and was named one of Paste's Best Novels of the Decade and one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR and The Washington Post. Samuel Hawley isn't like the other fathers in Olympus, Massachusetts. A loner who spent years living on the run, he raised his beloved daughter, Loo, on the road, moving from motel to motel, always watching his back. Now that Loo's a teenager, Hawley wants only to give her a normal life. In his late wife's hometown, he finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at the local high school. Growing more and more curious about the mother she never knew, Loo begins to investigate. Soon, everywhere she turns, she encounters the mysteries of her parents' lives before she was born. This hidden past is made all the more real by the twelve scars her father carries on his body. Each scar is from a bullet Hawley took over the course of his criminal career. Each is a memory: of another place on the map, another thrilling close call, another moment of love lost and found. As Loo uncovers a history that's darker than she could have known, the demons of her father's past spill over into the present—and together both Hawley and Loo must face a reckoning yet to come.

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Publisher
Dial Press
Year
2017
ISBN-13
9780812989892
Genre
Crime & ThrillerFiction
Topics
Father-daughter relationshipsComing of ageCrime and its consequences

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