“In those years, the hardest of my childhood, Echo felt like a kindred spirit. I memorized her lines in slugger 8. I practiced her stance on the field in the mirror.
“For the reader who wants a time machine of the body and the heart, this novel is a great flight of fiction into the lives of three Wrights who dreamed—and of their times.”
When police and prosecutors settle on a theory of a crime, especially a capital murder case, they often default to adversarial mode: They will hear nothing that contradicts or undermines their conc
