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Book review: An astounding first novel

Fourteen-year-old Kevin is riding in the back seat of the car. He and his mother are on their way to spend the summer with Pops, his maternal grandfather, in Medgar, Kentucky. It had been two months since Kevin’s 3-year-old brother, Josh, had been killed...

This book was 15 years in the writing. Scotten, who always wanted to write, became a software engineer and is currently CEO of an important software company. His writing discipline, up at 5 a.m. to write, returning to rewrite in the late evening, has been rewarded with deserved high acclaim. (This review originally appeared in the Steamboat Pilot)