Ordinary Grace

New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961.  The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson's Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay at every barbershop magazine rack.  It was a time of innocence and hop for a country with a new, Young president.  But for  thirteen-year-old Frank Drum, a preacher's son, it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms.  Accident.  Nature.  Suicide.  Murder.

Told from Frank's perspective forty years later, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him.  It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.