The Twelve Lives of
Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti is the story of a father and daughter on a
path to the past. Louise “Loo” Hawley is 12 years ago at the start of the story
when her father teaches her to shoot a gun just as he taught her mom. Her mom
died when she was very little and they have been living on the road ever since.
Until one day, her father, Samuel “Hawley”, decides to move to Olympus,
Massachusetts, her mother’s hometown. There they met her grandmother, her
mother’s mother, Mabel and they are not welcome. Soon they “settle in” as
Hawley gets a job and Loo attends school. Soon trouble starts for both of them
and they are seen as the outcasts in town. Loo soon makes friends with a local
boy and she begins to visit her grandmother and learns the truth about her past
and her mother’s death. Will Loo confront her father with what she has learned?
Will she be able to understand her father’s reasoning?
The Twelve Lives of
Samuel Hawley is a great story about life, love and difficult choices. In
the story, you see that Hawley truly loves his daughter and deeply mourns his
wife. But he has only lived one life: a life on the road and a life on the
edge. Loo is a rough and rumble type of girl having been raised on the road.
The reader watches as she learns the truth about her past and experiences new feelings
and situations. I highly recommend The
Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley. The story moves back and forth in time as we
learn what type of life Hawley has led and the road that brought him to the
present.
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
is available on
Amazon
in hardcover and on
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