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Today's Featured Title and Contest |
November 14, 2013 |
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book to consider as a holiday gift selection. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Daily Contest by Friday, November 15th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE RETURNED by Jason Mott. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
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Today's Featured Book and Contest: THE RETURNED by Jason Mott
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Harold and Lucille Hargrave's lives have been both joyful and sorrowful in the decades since their only son, Jacob, died tragically at his eighth birthday party in 1966. In their old age they've settled comfortably into life without him, their wounds tempered through the grace of time…. Until one day Jacob mysteriously appears on their doorstep --- flesh and blood, their sweet, precocious child, still eight years old.
All over the world people's loved ones are returning from beyond. No one knows how or why this is happening, whether it's a miracle or a sign of the end. Not even Harold and Lucille can agree on whether the boy is real or a wondrous imitation, but one thing they know for sure: he's their son. As chaos erupts around the globe, the newly reunited Hargrave family finds itself at the center of a community on the brink of collapse, forced to navigate a mysterious new reality and a conflict that threatens to unravel the very meaning of what it is to be human.
With spare, elegant prose and searing emotional depth, award-winning poet Jason Mott explores timeless questions of faith and morality, love and responsibility. A spellbinding and stunning debut, THE RETURNED is an unforgettable story that marks the arrival of an important new voice in contemporary fiction.
-Click here to read a review.
-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here for the reading group guide.
-Click here to read Jason Mott's bio.
-Click here to visit Jason Mott's official website.
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Click here to enter the contest by noon ET on Friday, November 15th. |
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