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    The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
    The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
    The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
    Audiobook13 hours

    The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

    Written by Hannah Tinti

    Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley

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    About this audiobook

    A father protects his daughter from the legacy of his past—and the truth about her mother’s death—in this thrilling new novel from the prize-winning author of The Good Thief.

    After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter, Loo, to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife’s hometown, Hawley finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her mother’s mysterious death. Haunting them both are twelve scars Hawley carries on his body, from twelve bullets in his criminal past—a past that eventually spills over into his daughter’s present, until together they must face a reckoning yet to come. This father-daughter epic weaves back and forth through time and across America, from Alaska to the Adirondacks. Both a coming-of-age novel and a literary thriller, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley explores what it means to be a hero, and the cost we pay to protect the people we love most.

    Praise for Hannah Tinti

    “She is an adventuress who lays bare her characters’ hearts with a precision and a fearlessness that will leave you shaken.”—Junot Díaz

    “The key to Tinti’s success . . . is the constant tension between tenderness and peril.”—The Washington Post

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 28, 2017
    ISBN9781423385400
    The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
    Author

    Hannah Tinti

    Hannah Tinti grew up in Salem, Massachusetts. Her short story collection Animal Crackers was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her bestselling novel The Good Thief won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and an American Library Association Alex Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Tinti is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the award-winning literary magazine One Story.

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    • 4/5
      This was a really good read until the last page. Weak ending!!!
    • 3/5
      I was really enjoying this book until the end. I felt let down. I’ll give it a 3..I would have given more but to me..it was like the author was fully encompassed in telling the tale..and then at the climax said..ok..I’m tired now..that’s enough. I’ll leave it at that..unsettled. If you like stories with weak endings..this is the book for you.