“Twelve-year-old Daniel Hardesty endures a road trip into hell when his noncustodial father picks him up for a visit to Leeds...As Daniel dredges his memories of his mother and his father, readers see him recovering not only shards of redemptive meaning but also reassuring hope that he might venture into parenthood without recapitulating his own father’s atrocities against his future child. Harrowing and unforgettable.”
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