Hayley Jo Zimmerman is gone. Taken. And the people of
small-town Twisted Tree must come to terms with this terrible
event--their loss, their place in it, and the secrets they all
carry. In this brilliantly written novel, one girl's story unfolds
through the stories of those who knew her. Among them, a
supermarket clerk recalls an encounter with a disturbingly thin
Hayley Jo. An ex-priest remembers baptizing Hayley Jo and seeing
her with her best friend, Laura, whose mother the priest once
loved. And Laura berates herself for all the running they did, how
it fed her friend's addiction, and how there were so many secrets
she didn't see. And so, Hayley Jo's absence recasts the lives of
others and connects them, her death rooting itself into the
community in astonishingly violent and tender ways. Solidly in the
company of Aryn Kyle, Kent Haruf, and Peter Matthiessen, Kent
Meyers is one of the best contemporary writers on the American
West. Here he also takes us into the complexity of community
regardless of landscape, and offers a tribute to the powerful
effect one person's life can have on everyone she knew.
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