Reservation Road

John Burnham Schwartz

At the close of a beautiful summer day near the quiet Connecticut town where they live the Learner family - Ethan and Grace their children Josh and Emma - stop at a gas station on their way home from a concert. Josh Learner lost in a ten-year-old's private world is standing at the edge of the road when a car comes racing around the bend. He is hit and instantly killed. The car speeds away.

From this moment forward Reservation Road becomes a harrowing countdown to the confrontation between two very different men. The hit-and-run driver is a small-town lawyer named Dwight Arno a man in desperate need of a second chance. Dwight is also the father of a ten-year-old boy who was asleep in the car the night Josh Learner was killed.

In a gripping narrative woven from the voices of Ethan Dwight and Grace Reservation Road tells the story of two ordinary families facing an extraordinary crisis--a book that reads like a thriller but opens up a world rich with psychological nuance and emotional wisdom. Reservation Road explores the terrain of grief even as it astonishes with unexpected redemption: powerful and wrenching and impossible to put down.

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