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May 28, 2015

Today's Featured Title and Contest May 28, 2015
 

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Friday, May 29th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of FRIENDSWOOD by René Steinke, which is now available in paperback. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Today's Featured Book and Contest: FRIENDSWOOD by René Steinke

Friendswood, Texas, is a small Gulf Coast town of church suppers, high school football games, oil rigs on the horizon, and hurricane weather. When tragedy rears its head with an industrial leak that kills and sickens residents, it pulls on the common thread that runs through the community, intensifying everything. From a confused 15-year-old girl beset by visions, to a high school football star tormented by his actions, to a mother galvanized by the death of her teen daughter, to a morally bankrupt father trying to survive his mistakes, René Steinke explores what happens when families are trapped in the ambiguity of history’s missteps --- when the actions of a few change the lives and well-being of many.

Driving the narrative powerfully forward is the suspenseful question of the fates of four Friendswood families, and Steinke’s striking insight and empathy. Inspired in part by the town where she herself grew up, this layered, propulsive, psychologically complex story brings to vivid life a tight-knit Texas community and the events that alter its residents’ lives forever.

-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Connect with René Steinke on Twitter and Tumblr.

Click here to enter the contest by Friday, May 29th at 11:59am ET.

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