'Grist Mill Road' Bears Witness To Horror — And Its Aftermath
by Jason Sheehan
Jan 13, 2018
3 minutes
Christopher J. Yates begins his new novel, Grist Mill Road, with a crime in progress:
"I remember the gunshots made a wet sort of sound, phssh phssh phssh."
It is summer, 1982, and in a clearing in the woods outside the small town of Roseborn, N.Y., a 14-year-old boy shoots a 13-year-old girl over and over and over again with a BB gun while, close by, a 12-year-old boy stands and watches.
Matthew does the shooting. He
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