![]() ![]() He said writing Ordinary Grace exposed his heart in a way that “was scary, and meant that I was offering myself openly to my readers to make judgments of me, which doesn’t happen in the Cork O’Connor books.”Īll the action in Ordinary Grace occurs in the fictional town of New Bremen, Minnesota - the small hometown of the Drum family. ![]() He explained that Ordinary Grace is not strictly fiction, as the O’Connor series is, but is a book mined from his own experiences growing up. In an interview at the Recorded Books studio in New York City in May of 2013, Krueger compared Ordinary Grace to the Cork O’Connor series. Krueger’s Ordinary Grace, published by Simon & Schuster (2013), a New York Times best-seller and 2014 Edgar Award Best Novel winner, is not a part of the Cork O’Connor series, but is a stand-alone novel set in a small town in southern Minnesota in the 1960’s. ![]() ![]() William Kent Krueger is the much lauded author of the Cork O’Connor mysteries, a series of crime stories which take place primarily in wilderness areas of northern Minnesota. Ordinary grace – what does that mean? Do experiences of grace range from less-than-ordinary through extra-ordinary degrees? For author William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace is a novel, a captivating chronicle that includes a coming of age story, a murder mystery, and a stunning definition of ordinary grace. ![]()
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