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vie de Wendell nest pas simple, à vingtquatre ans, il travail dans un ranch et tente de rembourser des arriérés dimpôt sur ses terres.
Il a récemment perdu sa mère dun cancer qui a laissé dénormes factures à rembourser pour des opérations qui nont rien changées.
Son père a disparu dans des conditions énigmatiques et violentes, une dizaine dannées plus tôt.
Cest à ce moment là quon lui confie le fils de sa cousine incarcérée et toxicomane.
Rowdy a sept ans, il est muet et a certainement subit des traumatismes, Wendell va mettre un point dhonneur à prendre en charge son neveu, son attachement pour lui fait partie des jolis moments de ce roman.
Je ne savais pas à quoi mattendre en lisant cet auteur mais rapidement on est fixé sur le côté inéluctable des choses.
Wendel aura beau faire de son mieux, on sent une sorte de fatalité peser sur cette famille, une destinée de violence à laquelle personne ne peut échapper.
Gillian est veuve, enseignante elle sest installée dans la région de son mari, avec sa fille Maddy.
La construction du récit est parfaitement maîtrisée comme un engrenage que rien ne peut arrêter.
Et puis il y a des chapitres courts et intenses où le père de Wendell sadresse à lui sous une forme quasi poétique.
On en apprend ainsi plus sur lui et le drame quil a vécu, Alors même si le livre débute calmement, cest pour mieux préparer la tempête qui sabattra dans le dernier tiers du livre.
Lauteur joue avec nos émotions, ses personnages sont attachants on entre en connexion avec eux, Un premier roman inoubliable ou le passé réclame son du impitoyablement, Comment un livre qui débute comme une formidable histoire damour familial, damour de la terre, de la nature peut prendre un tournant extrême et nous emporter là où on ne sy attendait pas.
Cest tout lart et le talent de lauteur qui sexpriment ici et nous laisse pantois, Bonne lecture. This darkly compelling book has the feel of a western, or maybe a western thriller with psychological undertones.
Some achingly beautiful descriptions of Montana and the people who live there, The story of lost Wendell and the mute youngster he must care for is touching, sad and will haunt you for days.
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“El hueco de las estrellas” es una novela que nos sumerge en la América profunda actual.
En una realidad brutal y cruel,
Una historia sobrecogedora y desgarradora de amor y violencia pero narrada con una prosa, a veces poética, conjugando a la perfección el entorno y los sentimientos de los personajes.

Una historia narrada a tres voces sobre la vida y la tierra llena de dolor, odio, rencor y una desesperanza que lleva al ser humano al límite y a la sinrazón y por ende a cometer actos brutales.

Personas que como escribió Raymond Chandler se sentían tan huecos y vacíos como el espacio entre las estrellas.


Una novela que rompe poco a poco al lector a través de los huecos de las palabras.

Una lectura maravillosa para saborear poco a poco y así poder sentir el viento que atraviesa las copas de los cedros, el olor de la hierba de los pastos y disfrutar de ese cielo inmenso.
Wendell Newman, a young ranch hand in Montana, has recently lost his mother, leaving him an orphan, as his father met a violent end more than a decade earlier.
His bank account holds less than a

hundred dollars, and he owes back taxes on what remains of the land his parents owned, as well as money for the surgeries that failed to save his mother's life.


Into this situation comes sevenyearold Rowdy Burns, the illegitimate son of Wendell's cousin, who is incarcerated after falling prey to addiction.
Traumatized, Rowdy is mute and damaged, Caring for him will be a test of Wendell's will and resolve, and yet he comes to love the boy more than he ever thought possible.
That love will be stretched to the breaking point during the first legal wolf hunt in Montana in more than thirty years, when a murder results in a manhunt, and Wendell finds himself on the wrong side of a disaffected fringe group, hoping both to protect Rowdy and to avoid the same violent fate that claimed his father.


This dark and haunting debut novel is an unforgettable tale of sacrificial love, with two characters who win the reader's heart from the first page to the last.
Fall Back Down When I Die by Joe Wilkins is a highly recommended politically laden drama set in Montana.


Wendell Newman,, is a ranch hand in Eastern Montana who is seriously in debt after his mother's death.
He owes back taxes on the land he inherited and is paying off his mother's medical bills.
When a social worker shows up, Wendell learns he is the only relative of sevenyearold Rowdy Burns, who is the son of Wendell's incarcerated cousin.
Rowdy, who is mute and likely on the autism spectrum, moves in with Wendell and the two form a strong bond.


There is trouble brewing in Montana, between the cowboys and ranchers of the old West and the environmentalists, with the first legal wolf hunt, and increasing regulations being enforced on BLM land, and increasing state involvement with the rural families.
As much as Wendell wants to stay out of it, he is a part of it simply because his father, Verl, took a stand years earlier and killed a man.
Then Verl went into hiding and on the run, leaving his family behind,

The story unfolds between the pointofview of three characters and chapters alternate between the voices of Verl, Wendell, and Gillian.
The novel opens with the first person account of Verl, on the run and evading the law in the Big Dry mountains.
His chapters consist of what he is writing to his son in one of Wendell's notebooks that he grabbed when leaving.
Wendell and Gillian's narratives are told in third person accounts, Gillian is an assistant principal and counselor, who wants to help but also allows her own judgmental opinions of "rural stupidity" to color her actions.
It was her husband, Kevin, that Verl killed years earlier, At the end of the novel two other voices are heard from,

The writing is beautifully descriptive and poetic as it carefully and skillfully captures the setting and the characters.
The characters are all well developed and precisely depicted as individuals with their own beliefs and feelings.
The novel is slowpaced at the beginning, taking time to describe the land and people as the story leads, inevitably to the haunting and heartbreaking climax.


All the characters are survivors and suffering from emotional damaged in some way, Wendell and Rowdy are wonderful characters and immediately captured my heart, Gillian, I must admit, caused conflicting emotions, She annoyed me since she just seemed to be so opinionated and judgemental about the people she was supposed to be helping, but I alternately had compassion for her and her own struggles.


Disclosure: My review copy was courtesy of Little, Brown and Company,
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