Enon by Paul Harding

 ★★½

GENRE: General Fiction
SUBJECT: loss of a child
Setting: Enon
CHARACTERS: Charlie Crosby, Susan Crosby, Kate Crosby
DATE READ: July 29 - July 31
NO. OF PAGES: 256
Off the Shelf (pre-2013)? Source?:   yes, ARC  from Random House

PLOT:...............................................2.50
CHARACTERIZATION:..................2.50
TOPICS:...........................................2.00
STYLE:.............................................2.50
ORIGINALITY:..................................2.50
ADDICTIVENESS:.........................2.50
OWNERSHIP:.................................2.50
Threshold Quality............................3.00
Average................................................................2.50

13 year old Kate is killed while bicycling home from the beach. The reader follows the downward spiral of her father's life after this event.

I guess I was hoping that this would be an uplifting story of a father's love for a child lost too early in life.  But, I only found a whiny character and a depressing story.