![]() Rader-Day also vividly depicts the pain that is part of Amelia’s existence now and how the cane that she uses to slowly make her way around campus impacts her sense of self. ![]() The characters take turns narrating and we learn that both have struggled with depression and finding a sense of belonging among their privileged peers after growing up poor in the rural Midwest. Before long, Amelia and Nate, both researchers in the sociology of violence, begin working together to learn more about the student who shot her and why he targeted her of all people.īeyond succeeding as an engrossing mystery, The Black Hour delves into the shifting identities of its central characters–Amelia as she adjusts to her new reality of chronic pain and disability and Nate as he leaves his blue-collar small town for grad school at an elite Chicago university. She’s struggling through her first day back to work when she meets her new graduate assistant, Nathaniel (later dubbed “Nate”), a young man whose help she can use, but who seems almost a little too interested in her. The book follows Amelia Emmet as she returns to teaching at the prestigious Rothbert University after being shot by a student she didn’t know. ![]() That should have given me some idea of what to expect, but still, after reading the first few pages, I was blown away by Rader-Day’s dark humor and vivid description. The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel. ![]()
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