Staff Recommendation - Run

Run
by Ann Patchett

I love to read Patchett's fiction because you never know where she will take you. Her latest novel is set in Boston and the action of the novel takes place all in a few days when Doyle, former white mayor of the city and, his two twenty-something adopted black sons, Tip and Teddy, find their lives intersecting with a black single mother, Tennessee and her 11-year-old daughter Kenya after Tennessee throws herself in front of a car to save Tip from the oncoming vehicle. The action plays out amid a snowstorm that has brought many parts of the city to a standstill. Issues of family, race, identity and our connections to each other all come into play as the story evolves. -- recommended by Vicki W. -- Bennett Martin Public Library/Youth Services

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