Run

RUN: Ann Patchett: HarperCollins: Fiction: 295 pages

While arguing in the street with his father outside a political meeting, 21-year-old Tip Doyle fails to notice an oncoming SUV but escapes with only a broken bone when a stranger pushes him out of the vehicle’s path. After the ambulance takes Tip’s rescuer, who is hit by the car, away to the hospital, Tip, his father, and his two brothers are left to care for Kenya, the 11-year-old daughter of the injured woman. The Doyles soon discover that the woman and her daughter live in the projects bordering the Doyles’ wealthy neighborhood and are intimately, and surprisingly, connected to the family. Ann Patchett, the award-winning author of Bel Canto and The Patron Saint of Liars, once again delivers praiseworthy literary fiction that examines family connections and social issues in a satisfying, character-driven narrative.

MBC