One Of Us By Tawni O’Dell

I really enjoy Tawni O’Dell’s writing. She’s simply a wonderful storyteller. 

“One of us” is a story of a small coal mining town with plenty of secrets to set free. There’s the gallows, the dead baby, the psychotic, the abusive drunken father, the “nomadic, delusional, kleptomaniac, bipolar mother,” and the successful forensic psychologist who grew up there & now returns to see his ailing grandfather. WELL, I mean, what could ever happen in this town? Like I said, it’s a secret in a small town. You have to read it to find out.