The Resurrectionists: A Novel
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The solitude of the Upper Michigan Peninsula is Michael Collins's heart of darkness in this compelling story of the unquiet dead. Almost thirty years ago, when Frank Cassidy was five, his parents burned to death in a remote Michigan town. Now Frank's uncle is dead too, shot by a mysterious stranger who lies in a coma in the local hospital. Frank, working menial jobs to support his unfaithful wife and two children, takes his family north in a series of stolen cars to dispute his cousin's claim on the family farm. Once there, however, Frank also wants answers to questions about his own past: Who really set the fire that burned the family home and killed his parents? Will the stranger, who hangs between life and death, be able to shed light on long-buried secrets?
As the television blares the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, news of Jim Jones, and endless sitcom reruns, simple answers -- and the promise of the American dream -- seem to recede from Frank's grasp. Brilliant and unsettling, The Resurrectionists is an ironic yet chilling indictment of American culture in the seventies and a compassionate novel about a man struggling to overcome the crimes and burdens of his past.
Michael Collins
Michael Collins (1930-2021) was an astronaut, one of 24 who have flown to the moon. A West Point graduate, he was an Air Force jet-fighter pilot and a test-pilot before being recruited by NASA in 1963 as a member of the third astronaut group selected for the Apollo moon project. Lieutenant Colonel Collins flew in the Gemini 10 space mission, orbiting the earth forty-three times in 1966, and piloted the Apollo 11 module for the 1969 lunar mission which put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon’s surface. After NASA, Collins became director of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, then under secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and vice president of the LTV Aerospace and Defense Company. He held the rank of major general when he retired from the Air Force Reserve. Collins recounted his experiences as an astronaut in the memoirs Carrying the Fire and Flying to the Moon.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really enjoyed this literary thriller about a man, Frank Cassidy, who returns to his hometown after his uncle who raised him is found dead in his farmhouse and the murder suspect is discovered in a room upstairs.When Frank was five his parents were burned in their home and Frank was the only witness. He repressed his memories and under hypnosis implicated his uncle although he's never been sure about what really happened. Under hypnopsis Frank also mentioned a person by the name of Chester Green.Now, thirty years later, Frank takes his wife, Honey, stepson Robert Lee, and son Ernie to the remote town of his youth to try and claim the farm from his cousin Norman. Frank is confronted with his haunted past when he is accused of writing letters he doesn't remember having written and finds out that his uncle's murder suspect is in a coma and believed to be the mysterious Chester Green.The Resurrectionist is a powerful story about people struggling to make good lives for themselves under very difficult circumstances. All of the characters are greatly flawed except for perhaps the young and innocent Ernie. Honey has fits of rage that she takes out on Robert Lee whose biological father, Ken, is on death row. Robert Lee is angry and sullen and Frank is lost, his grip on reality often tenuous. However, there is significant hope in this novel (hence the title). This suspenseful story is not only a mystery in the whodunnit sense, but also a mystery of how people come together in the most dire of circumstances even when they feel miles apart.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I was blown away by this literate thriller. Michael Collins again captures the dark side of small town America. It is a story of homecoming and confronting the past but ultimately hopeful. There are so many thrillers set in the underbelly of large American cities that it is refreshing to read a story ripe with psychological tension and characters whose shared history goes back for generations. When Frank Cassidy was five, his parents died in a house fire in a remote Michigan town. When his Uncle is shot by a mysterious strange thirty years later , Frank returns to the town seeking answers about his past.Highly recommended.