MashReads Podcast: 'The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley' tells the story of a man's life through his scars
Hannah Tinti, author of The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, has a theory: "Our scars are really our way of telling the stories of our lives," she says.
It's this observation that helped inspire her latest novel and provides its powerful approach to storytelling.
"[While writing] I thought: Wouldn't it be interesting to try to tell a man's entire life story where you only get the story of his scars and you skip everything in between?" Tinti asks.
Twelve Lives does just that.
The novel is a father/daughter story about what it means to be a hero, and the price we pay to protect the people we love the most. The book provides two stories, told in parallel: The history of Samuel Hawley and his "twelve lives" (which are the twelve bullet wounds he's received while working as a criminal smuggler), side-by-side with the coming-of-age story of Loo, Hawley's daughter. As the storylines converge, Twelve Lives demonstrates how wounds we thought were a part of the past often have the power to haunt us in the future. Read more...
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