Tom Drury's "Driftless Area"

Tom Drury
Tom Drury grew up in Iowa, but now lives in California. He says he set out to write a novel where, as a minor plot twist, someone came back from the dead. However as he worked on "The Driftless Area" he decided that element was, as he put it, "book enough."
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Tom Drury titled his novel "The Driftless Area." It's very hard to place in a specific genre. There are elements of a thriller. There's a robbery. And there's a spine-tingling sense of ghostly predestination. One reviewer recently called the book "a Midwestern paranormal noir."

Drury told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr that he sees it in yet another way.

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