Talking Location With… Caroline McGhie: NORTH NORFOLK
A Prayer For Owen Meany
Location(s): New Hampshire
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend’s mother. Owen doesn’t believe in accidents: he believes he is God’s instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying.
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