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Nothing more dangerous : a novel, Allen Eskens

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After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, high-school freshman Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on. He dreams of glass towers and cityscapes, driven by his desire to be anywhere other than Jessup, Missouri. The new kid at St. Ignatius High School, if he isn't being pushed around, he is being completely ignored. Even his beloved woods, his playground as a child and his sanctuary as he grew older, seem to be closing in on him, suffocating him. Then Thomas Elgin moves in across the road, and Boady's life begins to twist and turn. Coming to know the Elgins-a black family settling into a community where notions of "us" and "them" carry the weight of history-forces Boady to rethink his understanding of the world he's taken for granted. Secrets hidden in plain sight begin to unfold: the mother who wraps herself in the loss of her husband, the neighbor who carries the wounds of a mysterious past that he holds close, the quiet boss who is fighting his own hidden battle. But the biggest secret of all is the disappearance of Lida Poe, the African-American woman who keeps the books at the local plastics factory. Word has it that Ms. Poe left town, along with a hundred thousand dollars of company money. Although Boady has never met the missing woman, he discovers that the threads of her life are woven into the deepest fabric of his world. As the mystery of her fate plays out, Boady begins to see the stark lines of race and class that both bind and divide this small town, and he is forced to choose sides
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eng
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Nothing more dangerous : a novel
Title
Nothing more dangerous
Title remainder
a novel
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Allen Eskens
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Author
Subject
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Language
eng
Summary
After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, high-school freshman Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on. He dreams of glass towers and cityscapes, driven by his desire to be anywhere other than Jessup, Missouri. The new kid at St. Ignatius High School, if he isn't being pushed around, he is being completely ignored. Even his beloved woods, his playground as a child and his sanctuary as he grew older, seem to be closing in on him, suffocating him. Then Thomas Elgin moves in across the road, and Boady's life begins to twist and turn. Coming to know the Elgins-a black family settling into a community where notions of "us" and "them" carry the weight of history-forces Boady to rethink his understanding of the world he's taken for granted. Secrets hidden in plain sight begin to unfold: the mother who wraps herself in the loss of her husband, the neighbor who carries the wounds of a mysterious past that he holds close, the quiet boss who is fighting his own hidden battle. But the biggest secret of all is the disappearance of Lida Poe, the African-American woman who keeps the books at the local plastics factory. Word has it that Ms. Poe left town, along with a hundred thousand dollars of company money. Although Boady has never met the missing woman, he discovers that the threads of her life are woven into the deepest fabric of his world. As the mystery of her fate plays out, Boady begins to see the stark lines of race and class that both bind and divide this small town, and he is forced to choose sides
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PABRO
Citation location within source
  • October 01, 2019
  • September 15, 2019
  • September 02, 2019
  • September 01, 2019
Citation source
  • Library Journal
  • Booklist
  • Publishers Weekly
  • Kirkus Reviews
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1963-
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Eskens, Allen
Dewey number
813/.6
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3605.S49
LC item number
N68 2019
Literary form
fiction
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  • Missing persons
  • Racism
  • Missouri
Label
Nothing more dangerous : a novel, Allen Eskens
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Control code
BRD2019949856
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
vii, 293 pages
Isbn
9780316509725
Lccn
2019949856
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
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(OCoLC)1102468395
Label
Nothing more dangerous : a novel, Allen Eskens
Publication
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
BRD2019949856
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
vii, 293 pages
Isbn
9780316509725
Lccn
2019949856
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1102468395

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