The sweet hereafter: a novel
Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident. Using four different narrators, he creates a small town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: when the worst thing happens, who do you blame?
The age of consent
In the course of a family picnic, Massie Jenks, 15, normally so gay and carefree, throws herself off a cliff head down, seriously injuring herself. This purposeful and defiant act, by a girl admired in the community for her love of life, is the mystery her younger brother will devote years to solving, discovering incest and sexual abuse. By the author of The Final Club.