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Synopsis
A call from their mother pulls Brian, Scott, and Matt Caldwell back to the lake cabin they haven’t shared in years. A septic inspection has a deadline. Their father is still there, but he’s forgetting—words, names, the order of familiar things. Brian drives in from North Carolina. Scott follows from Chicago on little sleep. Matt flies in from out west with his son. The brothers arrive with obligations waiting behind them, trying to make the week feel like work instead of what it is.
In the heat and noise of the lake, memory doesn’t arrive as a story. It arrives as a rope knot pulled too tight, as wake in darkness, as a decision made too quickly and never explained. The boys they were move through the book alongside the men they’ve become—through storms, injuries, small cruelty, and moments of competence and joy that can’t protect anyone from consequences.
The Straightened Road is a quiet family saga about what silence shapes, and what still refuses to go quiet—fiction, but based in part on real incidents in the Ozarks.
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À propos de l'auteur
Warren Moss writes fiction about the places people return to and the places they carry, whether they want to or not. His work is rooted in Mid-American rhythms-practical speech, held-back emotion, the small gestures that stand in for what can't be said out loud. He is drawn to stories where love is expressed indirectly, where family roles harden into habit, and where the past stays active without explanation.In *The Straightened Road*, three brothers are pulled back to a lake cabin at Horseshoe Bend by a deadline and an aging father whose memory is slipping in real time. The book moves between childhood and adulthood, letting sound, movement, and physical sensation do the work of remembrance. Faith persists as a rhythm in the background, not a speech: Sunday clothes, a bell across water, a practiced prayer under pressure. The lake remains neutral-beautiful, dangerous, indifferent-while the people around it make meaning out of what they can bear to name.The title comes from the novel's final image: a dangerous curve on Bluff Road that the county has since straightened. The road is safer now, but the body still braces for what used to be there. Memory works the same way.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Moss, Warren (illustrateur). Paperback. They return because there's a deadline.Their mother calls with the kind of problem that can't be ignored: the septic has failed, an inspector is coming Tuesday, and she can't do it by herself. Brian drives in first from North Carolina with his wife Julie and their two teenagers, Jake and Emily. Scott follows from Chicago on little sleep. Matt flies in from out west with his son Owen and the look of someone who's already bracing for blame. Their father Rick is there, too-present, practical, and increasingly lost in small ways that no one names out loud.The cabin at Horseshoe Bend is the same in all the ways that matter: the screen door slap, the ceiling fan click, the dock tapping underfoot. But the lake is louder now-powerboats carving the main channel, the distant roar of the Shootout drifting up from the dam. The children move with modern freedom-phones, wave runners, speed-and the adults can't keep them in sight the way they once did. Work gathers in the yard behind the cabin. Lists appear on envelopes. The week becomes a rehearsal for inheritance: who decides, who yields, who watches, who leaves first.And the past keeps breaking the surface.In braided chapters, the boys' summers at the lake return through the pressure of the present: a Sunday routine that includes Mass at Our Lady of the Lake, a fireworks crowd that turns dangerous on the ride home, a storm that forces an emergency tie-up at a stranger's dock, a dark gap under the boards where a water moccasin waits, a set of cliffs around the point where the channel pulls boats too close together. The children do not interpret what happens. They register it. The adults do not explain it. They carry it.When the next generation tests the same edges-when a phone captures something the adults would rather erase-the brothers have to decide what they will control, what they will confess, and what they will let remain unfinished.The Straightened Road is a deeply human Mid-American novel about brotherhood, faith as practice, and the private cost of being the one who "handles things." It refuses easy revelation or tidy resolution. Instead, it asks what a family becomes when love is expressed indirectly and the truth is left unfinished-and what it means to bring your own children back to the place where you first learned to stay quiet.Though the characters and story are fictional, the book is based in part on real incidents in the Ozarks. A septic inspection forces three brothers back to their family's lake cabin. As their father's memory falters, childhood summers resurface--testing what the men will admit to and what they will keep. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798994640500
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Moss, Warren (illustrateur). nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - They return because there's a deadline.Their mother calls with the kind of problem that can't be ignored: the septic has failed, an inspector is coming Tuesday, and she can't do it by herself. Brian drives in first from North Carolina with his wife Julie and their two teenagers, Jake and Emily. Scott follows from Chicago on little sleep. Matt flies in from out west with his son Owen and the look of someone who's already bracing for blame. Their father Rick is there, too-present, practical, and increasingly lost in small ways that no one names out loud.The cabin at Horseshoe Bend is the same in all the ways that matter: the screen door slap, the ceiling fan click, the dock tapping underfoot. But the lake is louder now-powerboats carving the main channel, the distant roar of the Shootout drifting up from the dam. The children move with modern freedom-phones, wave runners, speed-and the adults can't keep them in sight the way they once did. Work gathers in the yard behind the cabin. Lists appear on envelopes. The week becomes a rehearsal for inheritance: who decides, who yields, who watches, who leaves first.And the past keeps breaking the surface.In braided chapters, the boys' summers at the lake return through the pressure of the present: a Sunday routine that includes Mass at Our Lady of the Lake, a fireworks crowd that turns dangerous on the ride home, a storm that forces an emergency tie-up at a stranger's dock, a dark gap under the boards where a water moccasin waits, a set of cliffs around the point where the channel pulls boats too close together. The children do not interpret what happens. They register it. The adults do not explain it. They carry it.When the next generation tests the same edges-when a phone captures something the adults would rather erase-the brothers have to decide what they will control, what they will confess, and what they will let remain unfinished.The Straightened Road is a deeply human Mid-American novel about brotherhood, faith as practice, and the private cost of being the one who 'handles things.' It refuses easy revelation or tidy resolution. Instead, it asks what a family becomes when love is expressed indirectly and the truth is left unfinished-and what it means to bring your own children back to the place where you first learned to stay quiet.Though the characters and story are fictional, the book is based in part on real incidents in the Ozarks. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798994640500
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