![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now the Aryan Steel wants to pulverize Nate’s broken family, and few gangs are as proactive in curbing defiance. Turns out, Nate declined an offer to work for this band of bigots by killing his prospective manager an email wouldn’t suffice. That changes, though, when Nate and Polly are thrust into a violent game of tag with the toughest white boys in California. When you practice the craft and sullen art of armed robbery, as Nate does, danger is an occupational hazard, yet it’s never followed him home. The problem, which drives this outlaw fable to its grisly finale, is that he brings his sins with him and the penance is steep. It’s a tragic irony that a deadbeat dad can destroy a life without ever having nurtured it.īut a recent ex-con does precisely that in Jordan Harper’s debut novel, She Rides Shotgun, when he kidnaps his daughter-a gifted middle-schooler with “gunfighter eyes” named Polly-and not because he misses her. After all, few mysteries are as haunting as the mystery of inheritance. While the former tenders a daily diet of love and mercy, the latter caters a bottomless buffet of wonder and strife. ![]() The only person in a child’s universe who looms larger than a parent is an absent one. ![]()
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