KlappentextNATIONAL BESTSELLER ÿ A gripping American-on-the-run thriller . . . a brilliant coming-of-age tale and a touching exploration of father-daughter relationships. Newsweek
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One part Quentin Tarantino, one part Scheherazade, and twelve parts wild innovation. Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestsellingÿauthor of Commonwealth
NAMED ONE OF PASTE S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE ÿNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR The Washington Postÿ ÿPasteÿ
Samuel Hawley isn t like the other fathers in Olympus, Massachusetts. A loner who spent years living on the run, he raised his beloved daughter, Loo, on the road, moving from motel to motel, always watching his back. Now that Loo s a teenager, Hawley wants only to give her a normal life. In his late wife s hometown, he finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at the local high school.
Growing more and more curious about the mother she never knew, Loo begins to investigate. Soon, everywhere she turns, she encounters the mysteries of her parents lives before she was born. This hidden past is made all the more real by the twelve scars her father carries on his body. Each scar is from a bullet Hawley took over the course of his criminal career. Each is a memory: of another place on the map, another thrilling close call, another moment of love lost and found. As Loo uncovers a history that s darker than she could have known, the demons of her father s past spill over into the present and together both Hawley and Loo must face a reckoning yet to come.
Praise for The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
A master class in literary suspense. The Washington Post
Tinti depicts brutality and compassion with exquisite sensitivity, creating a powerful overlay of love and pain. The New Yorker
Hannah Tinti s beautifully constructed second novel . . . uses the scars on Hawley s body all twelve bullet wounds, one by one to show who he is, what he s done, and why the past chases and clings to him with such tenacity. The Boston Globe
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawleyÿis an adventure epic with the deeper resonance of myth. . . . Tinti exhibits an aptitude for shining a piercing light into the corners of her characters hearts and minds. O: The Oprah Magazine
ZusammenfassungLoo is twelve when she moves back to the New England fishing village of her early youth. Her father, Hawley, finds work on the docks, while she deals with being a new kid in school. But hurtling towards both father and daughter are the ghosts of Hawley's criminal past. This is a novel about what it means to be a hero, and the cost we pay to protect the people we love most.
