RaveThe Los Angeles TimesIn Horns, we find a likable and well-meaning protagonist in Ig, whose life in his small New Hampshire town – a life once cushioned by his family's wealth and status – has been shattered by the rape and murder of his girlfriend Merrin. Ig was never tried for the crime, but he's always been the primary suspect, and just about everyone in town thinks he's guilty … The real horror, Hill seems to suggest, is in the unadorned truth that usually goes unspoken. And although a devil's-eye view onto the world shows Ig the world at its worst, it also gives him the opportunity to peer more deeply into the mystery of Merrin's death … Here is a richly nuanced story that traces the catastrophes of adult lives gone wrong to the complex and fraught relationships of children.
