Cry Father: A Book Club Recommendation!

A gritty literary crime novel, Cry Father follows Patterson Wells, a disaster-zone tree clearer navigating grief, addiction, and the legacy of violence in America’s forgotten corners. From the critically acclaimed author of Pike—nominated for France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Policière—Benjamin Whitmer delivers a haunting story of fathers, sons, and the cost of violence.

For Patterson Wells, disaster is the norm. Working alongside dangerous, desperate, itinerant men as a tree clearer in dis...