From the publisher
Lincoln “Link” Clark always wanted to be a Barlow. The closest he ever came was growing up down the street from their house on the corner of Hill and Fifth—Flat Hill and Bark, as they called it.
FLAT HILL AND BARK is set in Wallace, Minnesota—a small river town shaped for generations by two polarizing families: the Pitts and the Barlows. At thirteen, Link is quietly obsessed with Joey Barlow—the sharp, self-assured eldest daughter of Teddy and Mary Anne Barlow—who is about to graduate and leave for college. Through Link’s eyes, the town’s mythology comes alive during one unforgettable summer—his last before adulthood takes over. Patrick Barlow fights Jimmy Buckholtz in the woods. Old Hunter Barlow chases a werewolf. Ghosts play cards in the Monteleone Hotel. It is the summer of Nirvana, the Lemonheads, and Bill Clinton. It is also the summer Billy Barlow builds a time machine.
Thirty years later, the same friends return to Wallace to bury one of their own. Their reunion stirs old loyalties, forgotten loves, and a long-dormant mystery—one that forces Link to confront the question that has defined his life: is home a place, or a moment you can never return to?
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We haven’t read Flat Hill and Bark yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
