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A father protects his daughter from the legacy of his past - and the truth about her mother's death - in this thrilling new novel from the prize-winning author of The Good Thief.After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter, Loo, to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife's hometown, Hawley finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her mother's mysterious death. Haunting them both are twelve scars Hawley carries on his body, from twelve bullets in his criminal past - a past that eventually spills over into his daughter's present, until together they must face a reckoning yet to come. This father-daughter epic weaves back and forth through time and across America, from Alaska to the Adirondacks. Both a coming-of-age novel and a literary thriller, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley explores what it means to be a hero, and the cost we pay to protect the people we love most.Praise for Hannah Tinti"She is an adventuress who lays bare her characters' hearts with a precision and a fearlessness that will leave you shaken." - Junot Daz"The key to Tinti's success . . . is the constant tension between tenderness and peril." - The Washington Post
About the Author
Hannah Tinti is the author of the short story collection Animal Crackers and co-founder and editor in chief of One Story magazine. Her best-selling novel, The Good Thief, is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Quality Paperback Bookclub New Voices Award, winner of the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, and a recipient of the American Library Association's Alex Award. Her new novel, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, will be published in March 2017 by The Dial Press. For more information visit www.hannahtinti.com
