Ordinary Grace: Book Review

 Ordinary Grace

Author: William Kent Krueger

Literary Fiction

Edgar Award Winner

Page Count: 307

Ordinary Grace is a beautifully written chronicle through grief and loss and grace.  Frank Drum reflects on a summer from 40 years ago, a summer filled with exploration, death, and revelation, a summer when Frank was only 13 years old.  Frank relives the summer of 1961, one death at a time, as he learns that life isn't always what it looks like, and God's grace is both mysterious and miraculous.  Finding the amazing, ordinary, awful grace of God in the midst of loss is a gift, and this story depicts both God's grace for His people and His people's grace toward others. The difficult revelations and circumstances dealt with that summer had the potential to create a very heavy and dark read; however, William Kent Krueger imbued his text with the hope that I long for and look for in the books I read. I would highly recommend this book to any and all readers.