While we recently selected Tom Franklin’s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter for our B&N Recommends Program, his books have always been of the cult classic variety; the type of work you share in knowing conversations with like-minded readers. Franklin definitely deserves the recognition, and his current position on our bestsellers proves it, but his novels occupy that sacred spot, outside the mainstream literary sphere, where fans of Charles Portis and Pete Dexter go to find their next read.Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is quintessential Franklin and describes the tragic events surrounding two crimes — more than 20 years apart — and the one-time friends who have the deepest connections to both incidents.
Discover Tom Franklin for yourself. I promise you won’t regret it and, soon enough, you’ll be eagerly pushing his works on others with a slight raise of the eyebrows and a nod of the head; “you haven’t read Franklin? Here, take this.”
NOOK owners: go to shop, and search “Tom Franklin” for a list of his books.