Flying shoes : a novel

Grouped Work ID	104c2492-a985-8d8c-6966-77b599374085
Grouping Title	flying shoes
Grouping Author	lisa howorth
Grouping Category	book
Grouping Language	English (eng)
Last Grouping Update	2024-05-02 03:08:59AM
Last Indexed	2024-05-05 03:19:07AM

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Howorth, Lisa

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Howorth, Lisa

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Northeast Regional

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Adult Fiction

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Northeast Regional - Adult Fiction
Southeast Regional - Adult Fiction

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"Mary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter couldn't resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. A suspect to whom nothing would stick. A neighborhood riddled with secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit authorities, had been able to solve the crime. Now, thirty years later, the reporter's call will reel a reluctant Mary Byrd from Mississippi back to Virginia where she must confront her family--and, once again, the murder's irremovable stain of tragedy. Lisa Howorth's remarkable Flying Shoes is a work of fiction, but the murder is based on the still-unsolved case of her stepbrother, a front page story in the Washington Post. And yet this is not a crime novel; it is an honest and luminous story of a particular time and place in the South, where even calamitous weather can be a character, everyone has a story, and all are inextricably entwined. With a flamboyant cast, splendid dark humor, a potent sense of history, and a shocking true story at its heart, Flying Shoes is a rich and candid novel from a fresh new southern voice about family and memory and one woman's flight from a wounded past"--

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104c2492-a985-8d8c-6966-77b599374085

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9781620403013

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Fiction

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HOWORTH

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Wake County Public Libraries

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North Regional
Northeast Regional
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9781620403013

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2014

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Bloomsbury

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Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Sexually abused boys -- Fiction
Suspense fiction -- Fiction
Women journalist -- Fiction

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Flying shoes : a novel

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Flying shoes : a novel / Lisa Howorth

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Flying shoes

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a novel

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Cold cases (Criminal investigation)
Investigation
Murder
Sexually abused boys
Women journalist

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Bib Id	Item Id	Shelf Loc	Call Num	Num Copies	Is Order Item	Is eContent	Detailed Status	Location
ils:688623	5790265	Southeast Regional - Adult Fiction	HOWORTH	1	false	false	Checked out	SER
ils:688623	5790269	Northeast Regional - Adult Fiction	HOWORTH	1	false	false	On Shelf	NER
ils:688623	5349426	North Regional - Adult Fiction	HOWORTH	1	false	false	On Shelf	NOR

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Bib Id	Format	Format Category	Edition	Language	Publisher	Publication Date	Physical Description	Abridged
ils:688623	Book	Books	First U.S. edition	English	Bloomsbury	2014	325 pages ; 25 cm

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ils:688623	5790269	On Shelf	On Shelf	false	true	true	false	false	true
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