Death touches Frank’s innocence and rocks New Bremen to the core. From there, it grows and takes over the summer. It starts with a young boy found dead by the train tracks and continues with the body of a hobo that Frank and his younger brother find. One of the things Frank remembers is death. Forty years later, Frank recalls those days with the mind of an adult and that shows him everything he missed at the time as well as the things that shaped him. His mother sang at church and his father was a Methodist minister. He lived in the small town of New Bremen, Minnesota with his parents and two siblings.
While there is murder in its pages, this book is a celebration of language, a brilliant and nostalgic study of life in small-town America in the 1960s, a look at the complex relationships within a family, and a narrative that explores this country using crime, religion, and childhood as lenses.įrank Drum was just a kid back in 1961. William Kent Krueger’s Ordinary Grace is one of those crime novels in which crime is just one of the elements of the story.
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