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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

by Hannah Tinti
An unconventional lifestyle  -a father with a criminal past who wants the best for his daughter - The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti

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"A master class in literary suspense."-The Washington Post

"Tinti depicts brutality and compassion with exquisite sensitivity, creating a powerful overlay of love and pain."-The New Yorker

"Hannah Tinti's beautifully constructed second novel . . . uses the scars on Hawley's body-all twelve bullet wounds, one by one-to show who he is, what he's done, and why the past chases and clings to him with such tenacity."-The Boston Globe

"The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is an adventure epic with the deeper resonance of myth. . . . Tinti exhibits an aptitude for shining a piercing light into the corners of her characters' hearts and minds."-O: The Oprah Magazine

"An achingly beautiful story. . . . Tinti's language is precise and beautiful."-The Dallas Morning News

"Gripping. . . Tarantino-like in its plot twists, action, and violence, the novel sweeps across the country and back and forth in time."-Interview

"The Twelves Lives of Samuel Hawley is a thrillingly told tale that touches on the mythological and the mundane with equally compelling results."-BuzzFeed

"A surprising and celebratory father-daughter story told with astonishing language and scope."-BBC

"Tinti's second novel was years in the making, and well worth the wait. . . . This contemporary interpretation of the Greek myth of Hercules, whose twelve labors are represented by Hawley's twelve bullet wounds, is at once an American epic, a hardboiled crime story, and an exploration of familial love."-Otto Penzler, LitHub

"An unforgettable novel."-PopSugar

"Tinti's storytelling is masterful-she weaves together dozens of beautifully drawn characters."-NYLON

"Tinti knows how to blend emotional connections with engrossing plots."-The Huffington Post

"Hannah Tinti proves herself to be an old-fashioned storyteller of the highest order."-Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth



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