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Published by Sarah Crichton Books
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In this gripping, emotionally charged novel, a tragedy in Texas changes the course of three lives On an oppressively hot Monday in August of 1966, a student and former marine named Charles Whitman hauled a footlocker of guns to the top of the University of Texas tower and began firing on pedestrians below. Before it was over, sixteen people had been killed and thirty-two wounded. It was the first mass shooting of civilians on a campus in American history. Monday, Monday follows three students caught up in the
massacre: Shelly, who leaves her math class and walks directly into the path of the bullets, and two cousins, Wyatt and Jack, who heroically rush from their classrooms to help the victims. On this searing day, a relationship begins that will eventually entangle these three young people in a forbidden love affair, an illicit pregnancy, and a vow of secrecy that will span forty years. Reunited decades after the tragedy, they will be forced to confront the event that changed their lives and that has silently and persistently ruled the lives of their children. With electrifying storytelling and the powerful sense of destiny
found in Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, and with the epic sweep
of Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins, Elizabeth Crook's Monday,
Monday explores the ways in which we sustain ourselves and
one another when the unthinkable happens. At its core, it is the
story of a woman determined to make peace with herself, with the
people she loves, and with a history that will not let her go. A
humane treatment of a national tragedy, it marks a generous and
thrilling new direction for a gifted American writer. pub date: 2014-04-29 | Hardcover | 9780374228828 |
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