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Melanie Rae Thon's brilliant new novel is a story of love, justice and redemption set in the haunted landscape of the American West
Flint is sixteen. He's spent eight years in detention. Half boy, half full-grown criminal, he makes his escape to find the one person he trusts: his ten-year-old sister Cecile. Like a young, small-time Bonnie and Clyde, they try their hand at minor crimes that soon escalate into a terrifying trail of robbery and violence, on a desperate journey south to the Crow Indian reservation where their ancestors once lived. What drives Flint is a hurt generations old; and in prose of extraordinary power and precision, Thon's unforgettable story explores a web of betrayal, theft and violence that extends as far back as American history itself - and directly to its future. "This powerful, pitch-perfect novel" - Elle
"An immensely gifted prose stylist and storyteller of breathtaking authenticity and power" - Washington Post
"Sweet Hearts conjures our relentless search to find a kind of personal, imperfect transcendence"- San Francisco Chronicle
"The range of emotion Thon has her narrator intuit in other characters' lives - and share with us - is remarkable"- Los Angeles Times
"Prose so taut and full of feeling that it enters the mind as though it were being whispered in the dark...a shattering yet deeply spiritual novel that fuses personal loss with cultural devastation" - Starred review, Booklist
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About Melanie Rae Thon Melanie Rae Thon was born in Montana and now teaches Creative Writing at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Her other work includes Meteors and Girls in the Grass
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