 Under the Stone by Matthew Babcock
Life's secrets await the curious who overturn the stones beneath their feet. The chance of uncovering a curse drives the bitter and downtrodden to leave those stones undisturbed. The luckless pause and walk on, not knowing a fortune lies underfoot.
Five unconnected stories—from the highways of Eastern Idaho, the resort towns of upstate New York, and Britain's legendary Lake District—place ordinary people in extraordinary situations where they lose, discover, and narrowly miss the answers they seek.
A young boy uses a discarded doll to defeat a neighborhood bully in an irrigation ditch regatta the day that teenage parents across the street lose their daughter in a drowning accident. A high school freshman suffers humiliation at a dance, receives a mysterious phone call, and pursues promises of love at the local pizza hangout. Plagues of crows descend the night an engaged pharmaceutical rep misses a dinner date with his wealthy future father-in-law, only to discover the truth about the future in an obscure lakeside restaurant. A young father faces his racist paranoia in a highway rest stop, and a Dutch bus driver finds Wordsworth country the perfect place to shame his German ex-wife for leaving him ignorant of his paternity for twenty years.
As sure as stone: The moment you lift and look, the lie becomes the answer. And the answers lie—where you left them.
Genre: Mainstream
Book Length: Novel
Price: $5.95
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