Christopher J. Yates. (2018). Grist Mill Road: A Novel. Picador.

Christopher J. Yates. 2018. Grist Mill Road: A Novel. Picador.

Christopher J. Yates, Grist Mill Road: A Novel. Picador, 2018.

Christopher J. Yates. Grist Mill Road: A Novel. Picador, 2018.

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An Entertainment Weekly "Must Read"

One of the NPR Book Concierge's "Best Books of the Year"
"Twisty and told from multiple perspectives, this meaty thriller races to a satisfying finish." —People magazine

"The intensity of the storytelling is exhilarating and unsettling." —Booklist (starred review)

Twenty-six years ago Hannah had her eye shot out. Now she wants justice. But is she blind to the truth?

Christopher J. Yates's cult hit Black Chalk introduced that rare writerly talent: a literary writer who could write a plot with the intricacy of a brilliant mental puzzle, and with characters so absorbing that readers are immediately gripped. Yates's new book does not disappoint. Grist Mill Road is a dark, twisted, and expertly plotted Rashomon-style tale. The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and glacial ponds of timeworn mountains, three friends—Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah—are bound together by a terrible and seemingly senseless crime. Twenty-six years later, in New York City, living lives their younger selves never could have predicted, the three meet again—with even more devastating results.

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   • source: Tana French, author of the New York Times bestselling In the Woods and The Trespasser
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     "The plot is darkly, intricately layered, full of pitfalls and switchbacks, smart and funny and moving and merciless; the characters are all that and more. This is a powerful exploration of how truth isn't a complete and immutable thing, or a pure force of redemption: it's made up of broken shards that lie buried somewhere in the spaces between people, and when the jagged edges work their way to the surface, they can be devastating."

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   • source: Krysten Ritter, author of Bonfire
   • content: "Dark, intense, and disturbing, Christopher Yates's Grist Mill Road begins with a shock and keeps the suspense burning page after page. A thriller with imagination to spare. Highly recommended."
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   • source: Jason Matthews, author of the bestselling Red Sparrow trilogy
   • content: "Christopher Yates's Grist Mill Road is a terrific thriller. A horrid childhood crime carried secretly to adulthood, with menace lurking around the corner, and guilt hanging heavy overhead. Alfred Hitchcock would have optioned the plot in the blink of his gimlet eye. A gripping read."
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   • content: "The list of authors whose books I read automatically is very short, and loses more names than it adds most years. Now the British writer Christopher J. Yates is on it, thanks to this truly superb second novel, a dark, roving psychological thriller as powerful as anything by Tana French...irresistibly readable...make no mistake: Yates is the real deal."
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     Starred review from October 30, 2017
     Yates follows his well-received debut, Black Chalk, with an edgy, intelligent thriller that explores the aftermath of a senseless crime. In 1982, 13-year-old Matthew Weaver ties Hannah Jensen, who’s also 13, to a tree in the woods outside Roseborn, N.Y., and shoots her with a BB gun 49 times, including through the eye. Patrick “Patch” McConnell, a friend of Matthew’s, is walking nearby and hears the shots. When Patch arrives at the scene, he at first thinks Hannah is dead, but she survives her injuries. Flash forward to 2008, when all three are living in New York City. Hannah, now a crime reporter, is married to Patch, who puts all his energies into his food blog and fantasizing about getting even with the boss who recently laid him off. A chance meeting with Matthew brings to the surface the anger and violence each has repressed. The reader’s sympathies shift as each character brings a different perspective to the events that shaped them. Unexpected twists keep the tension high. Agent: Jessica Papin, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management.

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     Starred review from November 1, 2017
     An antihero in an Albert Camus novel ignored a dying child's plea for help and spent the rest of his days pounded by guilt. Toward the end, he cried out to the little girl to come back and give me a chance to save both of us. That's the entire point of this haunting, beautiful, and demanding novel. Patrick, barely into adolescence, stands by while his friend Matthew tortures young Hannah, eventually putting out her eye with BB pellets. Her eye socket, Patrick observes, looked like it was housing a dark smashed plum. The rest of the novel is about the aftereffects of these grim few pages. Matthew becomes a wealthy investor, and Hannah becomes a newspaper reporter. Patrick, still trying to explain away why he did nothing to help Hannah, lives in a half-world of jobs that don't quite happen. Inevitably, the three reconnect almost three decades later, and the unfinished business has its finaland bloodyworking out. And Patrick finally has a chance to save both of them. The intensity of the storytelling is exhilarating and unsettling.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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     November 1, 2017
     

     Yates's (Black Chalk) sophomore novel is a fun-house mirror of a single, horrific incident that defines three lives. Patch, Hannah, and Matthew enter the New York woods in 1982 as young teens, and what happens there changes each of them irrevocably. The structure is a fine example of the Rashomon effect, set with alternating points-of-view of the three involved. Patch and Hannah tell their tales in distinctive first-person voices, while Matthew's story is recounted in the second person, which only adds to the divergence of accounts, along with an overarching third-person omniscient narration that's set 26 years later when the protagonists' lives once again collide. Smart, beautiful, and unrelenting prose puts the reader right into the scenes, making it difficult to decide which of the trio--none of them are particularly likable, but each is engaging in his or her own way--is telling the truth. VERDICT This fast-paced, suspenseful journey through the minds of these characters will fascinate Donna Tartt fans and readers who enjoy twisty, intellectual thrillers and unreliable narration. [See Prepub Alert, 7/24/17; library marketing.]--Charli Osborne, Oak Park P. L., MI

     Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Having drawn lots of attention with Black Chalk, an NPR Best Book of the Year optioned for film by Ron Howard, Yates returns with a thriller opening in 1982 upstate New York. Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah are bound together in a love triangle made all the tighter by one senseless, criminal act. A quarter of a century later, all that poison wills out.

     Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Starred review from October 15, 2017
     A defining moment of violence inextricably links the lives of three young adults in Yates' (Black Chalk, 2015) psychological thriller. "I remember the gunshots made a wet sort of sound, phssh phssh phssh, and each time he hit her she screamed. Do the math and the whole thing probably went on for as long as 10 minutes. I just stood there and watched." Yates' novel begins with this visceral description that immediately establishes a complex relationship not only between Patrick, the narrator of these lines, and Matthew, his friend and the perpetrator, but also between memory and the truth. The novel cuts between a first-person narrative of Patrick at 12, documenting the events that led up to this shocking BB gun attack, and a third-person narrative of Patrick and his wife, Hannah, in 2008. As newlyweds, they are trying to find their way through the economic collapse and Patrick's loss of his job; Hannah is a reporter interested in writing a true-crime book. She is also the victim of the earlier crime, and while she knows about Patrick's connection to Matthew, she has no idea that he actually witnessed what happened and failed to stop it. Much of the book explores the ways in which they individually struggle to come to terms with and exorcise guilt before the past can destroy their present and future happiness. If this sounds complicated, it is--humanly complicated and narratively complicated--but successfully and movingly so. Yates manages to take a brutal incident and, by the end, create understanding for all three major characters involved: the victim, the perpetrator, and the witness. By doing so, he drives home the messages that truth is always subjective and that true, compassionate love is always redemptive. It's the compassion part, he argues, at which most of us tend to fail. Mesmerizing and impossible to put down, this novel demands full attention, full empathy, and full responsibility; in return it offers poignant insight into human fragility and resilience.

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"Twisty and told from multiple perspectives, this meaty thriller races to a satisfying finish." —People magazine

"The intensity of the storytelling is exhilarating and unsettling." —Booklist (starred review)

Twenty-six years ago Hannah had her eye shot out. Now she wants justice. But is she blind to the truth?

Christopher J. Yates's cult hit Black Chalk introduced that rare writerly talent: a literary writer who could write a plot with the intricacy of a brilliant mental puzzle, and with characters so absorbing that readers are immediately gripped. Yates's new book does not disappoint. Grist Mill Road is a dark, twisted, and expertly plotted Rashomon-style tale. The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the...

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