{"product_id":"9781250150301","title":"Grist Mill Road : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eGrist Mill Road\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Christopher J. Yates\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\"Must Read\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR's Book Concierge, \u003ci\u003eParade,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Twisty and told from multiple perspectives, this meaty thriller races to a satisfying finish.\" —\u003ci\u003ePeople \u003c\/i\u003emagazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The intensity of the storytelling is exhilarating and unsettling.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Arresting...Twisting backward and forward in time, entering the minds of each character in turn, Yates examines both how they reached this point and what happens years later, when the past wreaks havoc on the present....[A] sophisticated...elegant narrative.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The plot is darkly, intricately layered, full of pitfalls and switchbacks, smart and funny and moving and merciless.\" —Tana French, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eauthor of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Woods\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Trespasser\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Dark, intense, and disturbing...Highly recommended.\" —Krysten Ritter, author of \u003ci\u003eBonfire\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Two of life's delicious pleasures—gourmet delectations and a sinister, plot-twisty tale—come together in this intelligent thriller.\" —Oprah.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwenty-six years ago Hannah had her eye shot out. Now she wants justice. But is she blind to the truth?\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher J. Yates’s cult hit \u003ci\u003eBlack Chalk\u003c\/i\u003e introduced that rare writerly talent: a literary writer who could write a plot with the intricacy of a brilliant mental puzzle, and with characters so absorbing that readers are immediately gripped. Yates’s new book does not disappoint. \u003ci\u003eGrist Mill Road\u003c\/i\u003e is a dark, twisted, and expertly plotted Rashomon-style tale. The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and glacial ponds of timeworn mountains, three friends—Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah—are bound together by a terrible and seemingly senseless crime. Twenty-six years later, in New York City, living lives their younger selves never could have predicted, the three meet again—with even more devastating results.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plot is \u003cb\u003edarkly, intricately layered\u003c\/b\u003e, full of pitfalls and switchbacks, \u003cb\u003esmart and funny and moving\u003c\/b\u003e and merciless; the characters are all that and more. This is a powerful exploration of how truth isn't a complete and immutable thing, or a pure force of redemption: it's made up of broken shards that lie buried somewhere in the spaces between people, and when the jagged edges work their way to the surface, they can be \u003cb\u003edevastating\u003c\/b\u003e.\" —Tana French, author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling \u003ci\u003eIn the Woods\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Trespasser\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Arresting...Twisting backward and forward in time, entering the minds of each character in turn, Yates examines both how they reached this point and what happens years later, when the past wreaks havoc on the present....[A] sophisticated...elegant narrative.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eDark, intense, and disturbing\u003c\/b\u003e, Christopher Yates’s \u003ci\u003eGrist Mill Road\u003c\/i\u003e begins with a shock and keeps the suspense burning page after page. A thriller with imagination to spare. \u003cb\u003eHighly recommended\u003c\/b\u003e.\" —Krysten Ritter, author of \u003ci\u003eBonfire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Haunting . . . The twists are surprising, the plot is propulsive and the portrait of guilt is nuanced. This is psychological thriller writing at its most compelling.\"—Susannah Cahalan and Mackenzie Dawson, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e \"Best Books of 2018\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Christopher Yates's \u003ci\u003eGrist Mill Road\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea terrific thriller\u003c\/b\u003e. A horrid childhood crime carried secretly to adulthood, with menace lurking around the corner, and guilt hanging heavy overhead. Alfred Hitchcock would have optioned the plot in the blink of his gimlet eye. \u003cb\u003eA gripping read\u003c\/b\u003e.\" —Jason Matthews, author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eRed Sparrow\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The list of authors whose books I read automatically is very short, and loses more names than it adds most years. Now the British writer Christopher J. Yates is on it, thanks to this \u003cb\u003etruly superb second novel, a dark, roving psychological thriller as powerful as anything by Tana French\u003c\/b\u003e...irresistibly readable...\u003cb\u003emake no mistake: Yates is the real deal\u003c\/b\u003e.\"   —\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Shuffling and reshuffling one’s narrators has become almost a sport among suspense novelists, some of whom take it to excess. This reader, for one, balked when Paula Hawkins in effect brought one of her characters in \u003ci\u003eThe Girl on the Train \u003c\/i\u003eback from the dead, out of temporal sequence, to supply crucial information. \u003cb\u003eYates eschews such highhanded artifice, tacking back and forth in time, and from one narrator to another, with extraordinary skill.\u003c\/b\u003e” —Dennis Drabelle, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Two of life's delicious pleasures—gourmet delectations and \u003cb\u003ea sinister, plot-twisty tale\u003c\/b\u003e—come together in this intelligent thriller.\" —Oprah.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The intensity of the storytelling is exhilarating and unsettling.\" \u003c\/b\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An \u003cb\u003eintricately crafted\u003c\/b\u003e novel about adult lives forever changed by closely held childhood secrets. \u003ci\u003eGrist Mill Road\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea compulsive read\u003c\/b\u003e that will unsettle you from its first page and surprise you until its very last.\" —Jung Yun, author of \u003ci\u003eShelter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGrist Mill Road\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003efull of tension\u003c\/b\u003e and unexpected twists.” —Angela Carone, \u003ci\u003eSan Diego Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e “5 Books to Read in January”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Yates constructed a thrilling psychological puzzle in his first novel, \u003ci\u003eBlack Chalk\u003c\/i\u003e. 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