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"The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life" so runs the catchy opening to Heim's impressive first novel. The speaker is Brian Lackey, now a troubled teenager, once an introverted kid growing up scared in the small town of Hutchinson, Kans. The reason for his memory lapse and his fear, as we and Brian learn during the course of the novel, turns out not to be the space al...

The ripple of danger beneath the surface of Scott Heim's In Awe should serve as a warning to anyone expecting a casual ride: this is a book that means to take you places. A patina of malevolence overhangs Heim's Kansas, and even the quietest moments can have the most terrifying consequences for his trio of misfits,Boris, Sarah, and Harriet. The story draws us forward toward its heart lik...

In his psychologically disturbing third novel, Heim again focuses his obsidian vision on the relentlessly bleak Kansas prairie, where for years children have been disappearing with even greater frequency than they do from New York’s Grand Central Station. It’s a maniacal source of fascination for recently widowed, disease-ravaged Donna, who has created a shrine to the missing children, papering he...