In Where You Once Belonged, the bestselling and award-winning novelist
of Eventide, Kent Haruf tells of a small-town hero who is dealt an
enviable hand--and cheats with all of the cards.
Deftly plotted, defiantly honest, Where You Once Belonged sings the
song of a wounded prairie community in a narrative with the earmarks of
a modern American classic. In prose as lean and supple as a spring
switch, Haruf describes a high school football star who wins the heart
of the loveliest girl in the county and the admiration of men twice his
age. Fun-loving, independent, Burdette engages in the occasional prank.
But when he turns into a man, his high jinks turn into crimes--with
unspeakable consequences. Now, eight years later, Burdette has returned
to commit his greatest trespass of all. And the people of Holt may not
be able to stop him.