Enon

Enon (2013) by Paul Harding. Charlie Crosby's 13-year-old daughter Kate is killed in a car accident, and Crosby spends the rest of this book trying to deal with his pain, mostly through drugs. His wife, unable to deal with the pain, leaves him, and he is left to struggle alone with his grief. How he supports himself during this period is not made clear, but he retreats into a drug-hazed stupor, where he takes to wandering around the small New England town of Enon alone at night. He even goes so far as to break into a neighbor's house in search of pain-killers, a fact which he thinks is secret but which is actually public knowledge. It's an interesting novel, and it holds the reader's attention all the way through to the end, in which Charlie finally goes to the doctor to get help and begins to rebuild his life. Grade: A-