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I believe that someone on Amazon summed up the heart of this debut novel. "
Bent Road is a difficult book to wedge into any particular genre other than "fiction." And that's a good thing. There is a mystery at the heart of it, a bit of romance, and some coming-of-age and coming-to-terms elements, but debut author Lori Roy has created a work that is more of a dark parable than a tale designed for entertainment or amusement."
Buried family secrets and the powers and destruction that such secrets hold are felt from the opening pages to the end of the book. You just know that in the midst of this Kansas farm country something foreboding is going to settle in and change the lives of every one of the characters Life on the farm is ordinary, Death and violence are major themes throughout the book but family ties and interactions will give true to life insight into what made this the perfect background for this story.
