After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter, Loo, to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife's hometown, Hawley finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her mother's mysterious death. Haunting them both are twelve scars Hawley carries on his body, from twelve bullets in his criminal past; a past that eventually spills over into his daughter's present, until together they must face a reckoning yet to come. This father-daughter epic weaves back and forth through time and across America, from Alaska to the Adirondacks.
there are many reasons I should not like this book - all have been in other reviews: its violent; should a man such as Hawley be raising a child?; Loo 's lack of conscience, etc. etc
However...I really did like it. I thought it was intriguing to tell the tale through the twelve bullet hole in his body, there were redeeming qualities about Samuel. Not sure if I did or did not like the grandmother. The other characters were not so realistic - the boyfriend, the principal, the boyfriends mother.
Definiteliy an interesting and good read.