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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Tom Franklin

Start date: February 1, 2011

Finish date: March 31, 2011

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Jun 29, 2011 Kate rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2012-books, 12-booktopia-authors, 12-from-tbr-pile

A wonderful story on the meaning of friendship set in rural Mississippi. So many factors and themes are presented in this mystery surrounding the death of a young woman from many years ago. When another girl is missing, old feelings re-emerge regarding the main suspect in the prior case. Franklin writes very well about issues of family, racism and taking responsibility, as well as friendship.

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Apr 03, 2011 Wallace rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: review-copy, mystery

Type: {Airplane Read: makes time fly.}
Rating: {An Unputdownable: Couldn’t eat or sleep until I finished this book.}

Why You’re Reading It:
-You enjoy a well written book and a compelling plot
-You find unique characters refreshing
-You love the South, and the books that feature it as a character
-A well thought out mystery keeps you turning pages

What I Thought:

Wow. Wow, wow, wow. I have been texting my friends telling them to go get a copy of this book for book clubs, airplane trips, or just sitting Type: {Airplane Read: makes time fly.}
Rating: {An Unputdownable: Couldn’t eat or sleep until I finished this book.}

Why You’re Reading It:
-You enjoy a well written book and a compelling plot
-You find unique characters refreshing
-You love the South, and the books that feature it as a character
-A well thought out mystery keeps you turning pages

What I Thought:

Wow. Wow, wow, wow. I have been texting my friends telling them to go get a copy of this book for book clubs, airplane trips, or just sitting on their porch and reading this weekend. I devoured every word of this; part character study, part mystery, part exploration of a small town in Mississippi. How to get you to read this? I’m not sure what to say that would convey the message.

This story explores how misconceptions can break a person but not their soul; how important it is to tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth; how sometimes the most beaten down people can be the most loving — and how sometimes they can be the most disturbed. It will make you feel love for someone who, if you actually lived in this fictional town, you would probably fear. It will make you wonder who you are ignoring, neglecting, judging. It will make you think about how much you ridicule and isolation you could endure if made to do so.

Interwoven in the richness of the characters and their plights is a mystery; about a girl who went missing 25 years ago and another who went missing in the past few weeks. What happened to these girls, why it happened, and the effect it caused on the people left behind will have you tearing through the pages of this incredibly readable, short novel.

Please read it — and do so before they make the movie; the rights have been bought and it is being optioned, but there is so much that they won’t be able to capture. So read it this summer, you won’t be sorry.

*One last thing: I will forgive Tom Franklin for using my name the way he did. But looking forward to someone, someday naming a charming, lovely, female character ‘Wallace’.
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Feb 23, 2011 Lyn rated it really liked it

A very good read! Kept my interest all the way through and I finished it in 2 days - good story!

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Feb 25, 2011 Angie rated it did not like it

I did not care for this book. Although the story and characters were good the profanity was a turn off.

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Feb 18, 2012 Rachel rated it really liked it

Shelves: kindle-reads, 2012

There is so much to talk about here that I'm glad we are reading this for a book club. Mystery, drama, race relations in the deep south, flashbacks, whodunnit. I may not have picked it up if it weren't for a book club, but I'm glad I did. Nicely written with well developed characters. It took me a few chapters to get into it, so keep going! ...more

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