The Promise of the Pelican

A Novel

De: Roy Hoffman

Narrado por: Joel Froomkin

Duración: 9 h y 7 m

Resumen del Editor

For fans of Harper Lee and Rita Mae Brown, Roy Hoffman's new novel is steeped in a sense of place—coastal Alabama—with its rich tapestry of characters caught in a web of justice not for all.

At once a literary crime novel and an intergenerational family drama, The Promise of the Pelican is set in the multicultural South, where justice might depend on the color of your skin and your immigration status. Hank Weinberg is a modern day Atticus Finch, recently retired as a defense attorney in Mobile, Alabama, and a Holocaust survivor, who fled the Nazis as a young child. With his daughter in rehab, he's now taking care of his special needs grandson. Mourning his dead wife, spending mornings fishing on the pier with other octogenarians, he passes the rest of his days watching over his sweet grandson with the help of Lupita, a young Honduran babysitter. When her brother Julio, an undocumented immigrant, is accused of murder, Hank must return to the courtroom to defend him while also trying to save his daughter and grandson's life from spinning out of control. The Promise of the Pelican takes its title from the legend that a pelican will pierce its own breast for blood to feed its starving chicks, a metaphor for one old man who risks all to save the vulnerable.

In a crisp prose style Harper Lee called "lean and clean," Hoffman writes from an enormous well of compassion. He fills his new novel with a cast of finely drawn characters of all ages and abilities facing life's harshest challenges and rising to meet them with dignity.

©2022 Roy Hoffman (P)2022 Skyhorse Publishing

Reseñas de la Crítica

“The Promise of the Pelican is Hoffman at his best: Adventurous, soulful, perceptive, tender, gutsy and wise.”—Alabama Media Group, Huntsville Times, Birmingham News, Mobile Press-Register

“A fast-paced and mesmerizing novel…”—Mystery Tribune

“Roy Hoffman has written a fast-paced, mesmerizing and incredibly moving contemporary novel about human and civil rights … not only filled with heart-dropping events but complicated characters … Good and evil, right and wrong are interwoven in this memorable novel from the New South.” —Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls