What We Remember by Michael Thomas Ford
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- Pub. Date: June 2009
- 352pp
- Sales Rank: 55,944
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: June 2009
- Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
- Format: Hardcover, 352pp
- Sales Rank: 55,944
- ISBN-13: 9780758218513
- ISBN: 0758218516
Synopsis
Every family has a hidden story-even the perfect ones. Dig just a little, beyond the smiling holiday photographs and the oft-repeated anecdotes, and other memories come flooding back-the kind that can compel a family to stick together through catastrophe, or drive a chasm between them forever.
On the morning James McCloud, a Seattle district attorney, gets a call from his sister, Celeste, he senses his own long-buried family history is about to be dragged into the light. James's father, Daniel, a police officer, disappeared eight years ago. Now his body has finally been found. James always believed that his father committed suicide after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the evidence leaves no doubt: Daniel was murdered.
James immediately returns to Cold Falls, New York, to be with the rest of his family. His mother, Ada, seems worn out and blank with disbelief. James's brother, Billy, is twenty-one, gay, and even more troubled than James remembers. His brother-in-law, Nate Derry, is the town sheriff charged with investigating the case, and the mistrust that has hovered between them-ever since James dated Nate's stepsister Nancy years ago-still exists. When James's high school ring is discovered with Daniel's body, making him the prime suspect, the McCloud and Derry families are both thrust into controversy and chaos. And as the truth emerges, piece by piece, so do the shadows and secrets in each relationship-secrets powerful enough to threaten another life and destroy the bonds that still remain.
Both suspenseful and deeply moving, What We Remember paints a compelling, thought-provoking portrait of a family as ordinary, as unique, as comforting andstrange as our own. With unerring insight and candor, Michael Thomas Ford explores the complex ties-between fathers and sons, brothers and sisters, mother and child-that we may strive to leave behind but are compelled to carry with us, and reveals how little we can ever know with certainty, especially about those closest to us.
Publishers Weekly
Ford's adequate if overbusy latest begins with the body of sheriff Daniel McCloud, who went missing seven years ago, discovered buried in a box in the woods. As the investigation by the current sheriff, Nate Derry, progresses, the McClouds must come to terms with their father having been murdered, while McCloud's son, James, becomes the prime suspect, and a dark web of deception that chokes the Derry and McCloud families threatens to be unearthed. Leaning heavily on flashbacks, the story jumps between its perhaps too many points of view with relative ease. Ford handily navigates the suffocating intimacy of smalltown life, and his wide supporting cast has a few meaty characters. While the big reveal is set up very early on, the sprinkling of smaller mysteries and little tragedies will keep readers going. (June)
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Michael Thomas Ford is the award-winning author of numerous books, including Last Summer, Looking for It, Full Circle, and Changing Tides.
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Dysfunctional Times Tenby KenCady
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September 10, 2009: One doesn't read a Michael Thomas Ford novel for the artistry of the words, but more for the juicy human interest gossip, usually along a gay vein.
In this novel, the gay character proves to be the biggest mess of them all, although maybe not a murderer. "What We Remember" turns out to be the remembrances of a highly dysfunctional family, and what they remember reaches a point of absurdity as the novel reaches its, um, climax.The story revolves around a murdered man, and one of the main characters, James, a Seattle district attorney, has been arrested for the murder on the basis of his high school ring being found with the body. Really! He is not only put in jail, but charged by the district attorney with murder. There could have been a million reasons why his ring was where it was, but the author would have us believe that this is almost insurmountable proof of his guilt. And for a district attorney, James is pretty much a wimp about it, lying in jail hoping someone will save him. This fault alone makes the novel absurd, especially for anyone who has ever watched a crime show.But Ford does not disappoint with the juicy stuff- rape, sex, both gay and straight, and plenty of betrayal. So if that suits you, I've got a novel for you. Just don't expect plausibility or any hint of reality.Another wonderful Job By Michael Thomas Fordby Libra40
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June 20, 2009: Michael Thomas Ford out did himself with this book. I have read all of his books, and this one was very good. You think you knew who did, it but you will be shock when you fine out who did the killing. Its not who you think it is. When I recieved this book, I read it in 2 days. I could not put it down. Michael keeps a vivid picture of the surrounding area of the book. Like your there with all the characters, in this book. You can picture what everyone looks like,feel the love between the characters,and the hate, see the house of the main characters. I like the way he wrote this book, and he may go back to the past and to the now, but you do not get lost. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good fiction. Michael has done a wonderful job with all of his books. I hope he will write another book soon.
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