The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
Written by Hannah Tinti
Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley
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About this audiobook
A father protects his daughter from the legacy of his past—and the truth about her mother’s death—in this thrilling new novel from the prize-winning author of The Good Thief.
After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter, Loo, to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife’s hometown, Hawley finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her mother’s mysterious death. Haunting them both are twelve scars Hawley carries on his body, from twelve bullets in his criminal past—a past that eventually spills over into his daughter’s present, until together they must face a reckoning yet to come. This father-daughter epic weaves back and forth through time and across America, from Alaska to the Adirondacks. Both a coming-of-age novel and a literary thriller, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley explores what it means to be a hero, and the cost we pay to protect the people we love most.
Praise for Hannah Tinti
“She is an adventuress who lays bare her characters’ hearts with a precision and a fearlessness that will leave you shaken.”—Junot Díaz
“The key to Tinti’s success . . . is the constant tension between tenderness and peril.”—The Washington Post
Hannah Tinti
Hannah Tinti grew up in Salem, Massachusetts. Her short story collection Animal Crackers was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her bestselling novel The Good Thief won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and an American Library Association Alex Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Tinti is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the award-winning literary magazine One Story.
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Reviews for The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This novel glorifies crime, thuggery and the personal ownership and use of a smorgasbord of guns. To make matters worse it promotes the passing on of a love of guns and violent and criminal behavior to children.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was a really good read until the last page. Weak ending!!!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I was really enjoying this book until the end. I felt let down. I’ll give it a 3..I would have given more but to me..it was like the author was fully encompassed in telling the tale..and then at the climax said..ok..I’m tired now..that’s enough. I’ll leave it at that..unsettled. If you like stories with weak endings..this is the book for you.