Stony Kill: A Novel

0011881076AliceBauer82126214.0Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USJAX-NONE After the sudden death of her mother, Joss Ryckman finds herself running away from everythingathelife she did not choose of managing the family bakery in Brooklyn, the troubled relationship with hersometimes violent father, and her conflicts with Wyatt, a lover who always wants more. But when sheflees to the country farm of her childhood in upstate New York, will she finally find the truth of darkevents in her family’s past? Or will all that she has held at bay for twenty years come crashing down? As Joss comes to terms with her loss, she is forced to confront memories of a childhood steeped in bothjoy and sorrow. As the past seeps in through the rich farmland and the landscape of the treacherous, churning Stony Kill, Piecing together the broken past and her family’s dysfunction, the dark secrets of afamily submerged in a history of violence and regret begin to take shape, and the reality of two brutalkillings can no longer be denied. Joss must make her own choices and, ultimately, let go.Rich with beautiful language and immersed in powerful descriptions of Joss’s feelings, Stony Kill tells apowerful story of the heartbreak and suffering from violent acts of a dysfunctional family, and ultimately her hope and choice of a better life.