FARAWAY PLACES

During a fateful summer, 13-year-old Jake Weber witnesses the brutal murder of a
Native American woman by the town banker. Jake's parents forbid him to speak of
the killing or name its perpetrator, even as the woman's African American lover
stands falsely accused. The crime and what follows it forever alter Jake's view
of his parents and the world around him. "Faraway Places" won widespread praise
for its vivid narrative and incantatory style, and Spanbauer displays singular
skill in inhabiting the mind of a troubled adolescent boy.