Suspense is redefined here.' -Sandra Scofield, Newsday 'A lovely book, full of life and feeling' -Peter Matthiessen 'One of those rare-very rare-novels that you don't so much read as inhabit.But it's the novel's conclusion, as perfect as it is sudden, shocking and completely unexpected, that will stick in your memory.' -Tom Dehaven, Entertainment Weekly 'A beautiful novel. John Burnham Schwartz is awfully young to own this much wisdom, but there it is, on every page.' -Rosellen Brown 'A powerful and affecting pelling to read.' -Michiko Kakutani, New York Times 'Spellbinding.a haunting tale' -Booklist 'A poignant thriller.quietly breathtaking.a suspenseful literary novel' -Betsey Osborne, Vanity Fair 'A pleasure to read. And though it begins in catastrophe, Reservation Road turns out to be a kind of map of connectedness: Touch a child here and the whole world trembles out of orbit everyone bleeds finally, perhaps, after great pain, everyone heals. 'This is a shattering book, imagined with startling emotional precision and generosity.

And as they slip into nightmare, the novel becomes a harrowing countdown to confrontation between the hit-and-run driver - half running from his crime, half wanting to pay for it - and Ethan Learner, in deadly pursuit of the unknown man who killed his son.Already hailed as 'a nonstop read about people locked in a terrible embrace' (Ward Just) and a' first-rate work of fiction disguised as a page-turning thriller' (David Halberstam), Reservation Road is powerful, wrenching, impossible to put down. His mother tries to keep herself - and her family - together. His eight-year-old sister believes it was her fault. The car speeds away.The boy's father saw it happen. Josh Learner, age 10, is standing at the side of the road when a car comes racing around the bend. A compulsively readable novel of feeling and suspense about two men and their families, and the hit-and-run death of a young boy.On an ordinary night in a quiet Connecticut town, the Learners stop at a gas station on their way home from a concert.

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