The stories behind twelve different bullet wounds
Every week, The Thread checks in with booksellers around the country about their favorite books of the moment. This week, we spoke with Jennifer Norton, a bookseller at The Homer Bookstore in Homer, Alaska.Samuel Hawley has a violent past, and his body shows it: He has twelve bullet wound scars.And over the course of Hannah Tinti's novel, Samuel tells his daughter Loo the story behind each of them. In "The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley," Tinti weaves together a father's secrets with a daughter's coming-of-age story. Jennifer Norton loved it. She became a fan of Tinti's a few years ago, when…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.