EAN: 9781611854336

OCEAN STATE - STEWART ONAN KARTONIERT (TB)

When I was in eighth grade my sister helped kill another girl. From the striking opening line
of Ocean State  the reader is thrust into the world of the murderer  Angel  and her family  and
the victim  Birdy  as they plummet towards a conclusion both tragic and inevitable. Overarching
it all is the testimony of Angel's younger sister Marie  who reflects back on the doomed autumn
of 2009 with all the wisdom of hindsight. At its heart  the murder is a crime of passion -
Angel and Birdy love the same teenage boy  frantically and single mindedly  and are compelled
by the intensity of their feelings to extremes neither could have anticipated. O'Nan's expert
hand paints a fully realized portrait of these women  but also weaves a compelling story of
working-class life in Rhode Island  animating the banality of poverty. Propulsive  moving and
deeply rendered  Ocean State is a masterful novel by one of the great storytellers of
hard-scrabble America.

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