Reservation Road

Ten-year-old Josh is killed, a victim of a hit-and-run. His father Ethan saw it happen; his sister blames herself; his mother cannot come to terms with her loss. As the family disintegrates, someone else is struggling to cope with the tragedy: Dwight, himself a father, with a broken marriage behind him, was the driver in the hit-and-run, rushing to get his own son back home on time after a baseball game.

As the two stories unfold, Ethan finally works out that Dwight killed his son and goes to his house in the middle of the night with a gun ?This is a powerful and suspenseful novel ? accomplished, spare, and incredibly moving.