His mother expected a different life and drinks from spite. His father is a semi-shellshocked soldier-cum-preacher saddled with baggage. His big sister Ariel is a Juilliard-bound pianist with a tragic air. Frank’s younger brother Jake has a debilitating stutter, but he has a bit of seer in him. When he’s told not to wander along the railroad tracks after a neighbor boy is killed by a train, he heads straight for the tracks.
When his preacher father is awakened in the middle of the night to counsel the town brawler who’s just been tossed into jail (again), Frank insists on tagging along. But “Ordinary Grace,” a new novel from William Kent Krueger, is both, and it is affecting.įrank Drum, 13, is as restless as any other teenage boy in New Bremen, Minn., in 1961 would be. Not often does a story feel at once fresh and familiar. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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