Run by Ann Patchett

Run, by Ann Patchett, reviewed by Trish Burns, Library Director
(HarperCollins, 2007, $25.95, 295 pages)

The snowstorm of the decade, two seemingly unrelated families, and a car accident combine to produce events that change the lives and shape the deaths of the characters in this book. Set in the timeframe of just one day and one night, a privileged, politically savvy family and a poor, hardworking family meet when a mother pushes a son out of the way of an oncoming vehicle. Whose son and whose mother they are tells the story of how love for your children and family overcomes everything else.