The Far Empty

★ ★ ★ 1/2 (rounded up)
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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At dawn, when the sun's up ove rthe mountains and it hits the far edges of twon at the right angle, the pink caliche on the bluffs burns crimson and everytign runs red. Murfee alwasy wakes up bloody. The dead are her secrets...The missing are her ghosts.

I know who Deputy Cherry found out at Indian Bluffs, and so does my father.

My mother...his missing wife.

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* Actually, it'd be a slur, but let's keep this civil. I'm not sure I read many terms for minorities in this book that weren't racist slurs. Thankfully, the characters that are on the admirable side of things (not necessarily “good guys”) don't use that kind of language.

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