“It hummed with power,” Kari tells us, “with history. Debby holds it out to Kari while they sit at the bar, and a strange feeling passes over her. It is Debby who tells Kari she was clearing out some boxes in her dad’s attic and found a bracelet that belonged to Kari’s mother. Kari’s cousin Debby is her foil-femme, married with kids to a controlling low-key jerk-and her best friend. Her dad, bereft, drove for stretches with a bottle to numb the pain-until he had a wreck so bad it left him bedridden and Kari to care for him. Her mother up and left when she was two days old. The heartbreak for Kari starts essentially right after she’s born. She’s tough and smart, and you like her right away. Kari’s sharp tongue, simmering sense of uncertainty about herself, along with a few shots of heartbreak, make her undeniably compelling. Wurth’s debut novel White Horse follows our protagonist Kari, who lives in the Denver area and frequents a dive bar of the book’s same name.
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