![]() It’s the memory of their dead son, whose clothes the narrator wears to mass, whose room she sleeps in. Except there are, or rather, there is one, sitting quietly behind the couple’s tenderness towards the girl. She is bathed, fed, loved, and told, fervently, “there are no secrets in this house”. Cautious at first, the compassion she is shown by the couple draws her closer to them. Foster by Claire Keegan The story opens with the narrator’s father leaving her with the Kinsellas, a couple who live on a farm in rural Ireland. Here are 10 books that pull off this kind of negotiation especially well. Whether in memoirs, novels or short stories, I’m also interested in the negotiation that takes place between a narrator and reader when secrets are involved, whether the two stand side by side in unearthing them, or the dramatic irony that charges through a story when truths are revealed to one but not the other. In my debut novel, The Things That We Lost, I explore a family history through the eyes of a British Indian mother and son, Avani and Nik, as Nik tries to uncover the circumstances of his father’s death. It’s something I find myself drawn towards as a reader and as a writer – to the way untold truths take root between friends, lovers, families. Family secrets seem to rise to the surface when a protagonist steps from childhood into adulthood, in that equally devastating and freeing moment of realising that one exists both within a family and outside of it, too. In literature, these are a staple of the coming-of-age novel. Gravitas Ventures will debut The Godfather Buck in select US theaters + on VOD starting April 19th, 2022 this spring.Where there are families there are stories and where there are stories there are always secrets. It's also produced by Frederick Keeve and Thomas J. The screenplay is written by Frederick Keeve. Churchill, director of many other strange films including The Day of the Living Dead, Check Point, The Rack Pack, Nation's Fire, The Step Daddy, Amityville Harvest, The Business of Christmas, Big Freaking Rat, and Amityville Uprising previously. The Godfather Buck is directed by American filmmaker Thomas J. Two brothers (Kyle Lowder & Frederick Keeve), who meet once a year at a cabin in the woods in Big Bear to hunt white-tailed deer for a week, uncover hidden family secrets and lies when their stepbrother drops by for an evening, changing their lives forever. Churchill's The Godfather Buck, from YouTube: ![]() Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Thomas J. Doesn't look great but you also just must see this trailer. This one looks especially melodramatic and overly campy, with some impressively over-the-top performances and a doozy of a score in this trailer. The film stars Frederick Keeve (who also wrote the script and produced), with Kyle Lowder, Indar Smith and Julie Eagleton. Two brothers, who meet once a year at a cabin in the woods in Big Bear to hunt white-tailed deer for a week, uncover hidden family secrets and lies when their stepbrother drops by for an evening, changing their lives forever. ![]() ![]() This one sounds like it it's all about the big twists and reveals. "I heard that you had… had something to talk to us about." Gravitas Ventures unveiled an official trailer for an indie drama titled The Godfather Buck, another film from filmmaker Thomas J. ![]()
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