![]() ![]() Together and at cross-purposes, Amelia and Nathaniel stumble toward a truth that will explain the attack and take them both through the darkest hours of their lives. And meanwhile, he's hoping she'll approve his dissertation topic, the reason he came to grad school in the first place: the student attack on Amelia Emmet. Assigned as Amelia's teaching assistant, Nath also takes on the investigative legwork that Amelia can't do. By Suzanne Brazil, BLOGCRITICS.ORG Nov 9, 2014. Book Review: The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day. Nath is a serious scholar, but also a serious mess about his first heartbreak, his mother's death, and his father's disapproval. Rader-Day draws her heroines character with an Exact-o knife. Her fellow faculty members seem uncomfortable with her, and her ex-whom she may or may not still love-has moved on.Įnter Nathaniel Barber, a graduate student obsessed with Chicago's violent history. ![]() ![]() Her first student interaction ends in tears (hers). She's thirty-eight and hobbles with a cane. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question she can't let go: Why?Īll she wants is for life to get back to normal, but normal is looking hard to come by. Former high school runner Juliet Townsend, the narrator of Rader-Day’s disturbing second novel (after 2014’s The Black Hour ), is stuck in a job at the seedy Mid-Night Inn in her Indiana. For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic-until a student she'd never met shot her. ![]()
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