The Home Place
Carrie La Seur
Morrow, Jul 29 2014, $25.95
ISBN: 9780062323446
On a freezing January night on the wrong side of
the tracks in Billings, Montana, intoxicated Vicky walks the streets seeking to
score pot from her ex Dennis. An early
riser finds her body three blocks from the Kozinsky house where she and her
tweener daughter Brittany have lived paying the rent by the adult having sex
with the owner.
Vicky’s older sister Seattle lawyer Alma receives
the call that her sibling died from exposure.
Having avoided for five years going home as she hates Billings the site
of terrible memories, Alma plans to take care of business as fast as she can so
she can return ASAP to Washington State.
Her biggest concern is for her eleven years old niece who needs a home,
but she distrusts her volatile family even her big brother to take proper care
of traumatized Brittany, mute since her mom died. As remorseful Vicky learns more about her
estrange sister’s death, she begins to wonder if the tragedy was not alcoholic
induced but instead a homicide.
This is a perceptive Big Sky family drama in
which readers obtain a profound look at what shaped the two sisters to go on
such diverse paths after their parents died when they were young with Vicky's
death serving as a conduit into a dysfunctional extended family. Mindful of the frozen tundra in the movie
Fargo, the stark Montana background enhances a strong saga with the only
misstep being the “required” former boyfriend.
Harriet Klausner
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