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Old Newgate Road
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Old Newgate Road
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Publisher's Summary
Old Newgate Road runs through the tobacco fields of northern Connecticut that once drove the local economy. It’s where Cole Callahan spent his youth, in a historic white colonial in which he hasn’t set foot in 30 years - not since he was a teenager, when one night his father murdered his mother in a fit of rage. Now Cole has returned to discover his elderly father, freed from prison, living alone in their old home and succumbing to dementia.
Matters grow even more complicated when Cole’s rabble-rousing son Daniel is expelled from high school. So Cole summons Daniel to Connecticut to work in the tobacco fields - Cole’s own job growing up. Forced together, these three generations of men must contend with the sinister history they share - and desperately try to invent a future that isn’t doomed by it.
What the critics say
“A bracing, knotty exploration of abuse and its impact across decades.... Scribner writes beautifully about [these] hills and tobacco fields, with grace and a fine eye for detail. The novel’s real turf, though, is the bleak emotional territory of abuse, and [here he] writes with brutal intensity...drilling deeper into ever darker material [until ending] on a redemptive note.” (Kirkus)
“With psychological insight and a layer of suspense, Scribner artfully illuminates his hero balancing fiercely ambivalent feelings about his father with his own domestic problems involving his estranged wife and defiant teenage son in Portland, Oregon.” (The National Book Review)
“This gripping saga draws out themes of masculinity, sublimated trauma, and physical violence - speaking to the ways people fashion narratives out of troubled pasts to survive, resulting in a probing, tightly-plotted novel.” (Publishers Weekly)