Across the Street by Christian Hakiza (.ePUB)
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Across the Street by Christian Hakiza
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Overview: A debut novel for readers of Ann Patchett, Ann Napolitano, and William Kent Krueger.
“What is broken is not finished. Restoration is always possible, when someone finds the courage to face what was left undone.”
In the literary tradition of Tom Lake, Hello Beautiful, and Ordinary Grace, Across the Street is a tender, decades-spanning novel about family, forgiveness, and the small-town childhoods that shape us long after we have left them.
On a quiet street in a small lake town, two children grow up on opposite porches. Best friends before anything else, Nori Holloway and Sophie Sloan invent a constitution of life rules and carve it into the wood of their lake dock. Rule One: don’t keep secrets from your best friend. Rule Two: forgive when forgiveness is asked for. They are children. They have no idea what those rules will one day be asked to hold.
Told in alternating chapters across more than twenty years, Across the Street is a quiet, deeply felt novel about the things families feel and never say. About grief that is carried instead of faced, and what it quietly costs the people we love most. About the long inheritance of silence between parents and children, and the patient, hard work of forgiveness — given, received, asked for, and finally passed down to the next generation.
A debut of restraint and emotional precision, Across the Street will resonate with readers drawn to the small-town American literary tradition of Marilynne Robinson and Kent Haruf, the family-saga warmth of Ann Patchett and Ann Napolitano, and the quiet faith and grace of William Kent Krueger and Leif Enger. Both heart-wrenching and ultimately hopeful, it is a story about what is owed across the asphalt between two houses, and a reminder that the rules we carve as children — ridiculous, absolute, almost forgotten — can turn out to be exactly what holds.
A novel about forgiveness, the distance between a parent’s love and a child’s need, and the patient hard work of coming home.
Genre: Fiction > General/Classics
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