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For 20 years, Celia Scott has watched her partner, Arthur, conceal from the secrets encircling his sister Eve's loss of life. As a man, Arthur fled his small Kansas hometown, shifted to Detroit, married Celia, and never looked back. However when the 1967 riots frighten him even more than his past, he convinces Celia to pack up their family and return to the road he grew up on, Bent Highway, and this same small town where Eve mysteriously passed on. While Arthur and their oldest princess slide easily into rural life, Celia and the two younger children battle to easily fit into. Daniel, the only real son, is relying on Kansas to produce a man of him, since Detroit sure didn't. Evie, the youngest and small for her age, expects that in Kansas she will finally develop. Celia grapples with loneliness and the brutality of life and loss of life on a farm. And then an area girl disappears, catapulting the family headlong into a useless man's curve. On Bent Highway, a battered red pick up truck cruises ominously along the prairie; a unhappy litttle lady dresses in her useless aunt's clothes; a son hefts his father's rifle in search of a target; a mom realizes she no longer knows how to protect her children. It is a location where people learn that sometimes eradicating is the kindest way.
