Coniston — Volume 02
Coniston — Volume 02
In the quiet fictional town of Coniston, a sensitive storekeeper named William Wetherell只想安静度日,但事与愿违。Jethro Bass, the shadow king of this New England community, has uses for honest men whether they know it or not. When political reform sweeps through the town and Bijah Bixby comes sniffing for allies, Wetherell finds himself caught between forces he never asked to join. The novel pulses with the tension of small-town politics, where every handshake hides a calculation and every invitation carries a price. Churchill writes with sharp eye for how power moves through intimate spaces: the general store, the town meeting, the back room where deals are struck. This is a story about what happens when a good man becomes useful to dangerous people, and whether he can keep his soul while navigating a world designed to consume him. For readers who love early 20th-century American realism and tales of ordinary people extraordinary circumstances.
