TEASER TUESDAYS is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading and asks you to:
At dusk when the search for Chance was called off for the night and the doors of Shiloh Baptist were locked behind the last of the volunteers, Sis walked to her sister’s craft shop up on Main Street. She would’ve rather been home with Tillie and Joey, but she and Martha were in charge of planning their grandmother’s upcoming birthday party, and there were still a lot of details to be ironed out.
I’m just getting in the rhythm of Kirk Curnutt’s Breathing Out the Ghost; this quote is from page 75, but the pages are turning very quickly!
I like the contrast in this teaser, between intensity of the hunt for the missing young boy (no spoiler there, we know this from the dust jacket) and upbeat task of planning a birthday celebration.
What are you reading this week?
Oh, I want to read this book so bad! That was a great teaser that made me want to keep reading!
This sounds really good. Here’s mine http://stacybuckeye.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/1289/
You’re right – great contrast. That’s life, though; in the face of great tragedy, other people’s lives still go on.
This is a new-to-me title. I’ll look into it.
Sounds interesting. Life does have to go on.
Seems like novels about missing children keep gaining in popularity. This sounds interesting.
I liked the teaser. The title makes it seem like a serious read.
Here’s my Teaser! ~ Wendi
That’s an interesting teaser – I haven’t heard of the book before but I’ll be looking out for it.
Great teaser. I can’t wait to read your review.
I have this book in my TBR pile. I can’t wait to read it!
Great teaser Dawn!
hey, everyone – thanks for stopping by my Tuesday Teaser! I’ll be over to check out yours, if you have one posted.
Yes, it may sound trite, but life does go on. You never know what’s going on in the life of a stranger, so I try to give the benefit of the doubt (to that crabby person at the grocery store who rushes in front of me as I approach the check-out line, for example).
Kirk Curnutt has written volumes of literary criticism and fiction, but this is the first work of his that I’m reading. It is powerful!
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