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Take Me Out the Back Kindle Edition

by Carolyn Geduld (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 out of 5 stars 128 ratings

“A truly unique and chilling account of a mass killing as seen through the eyes of many.” –Sublime Book Review

A mass shooting in a nursing home rocks a southern Indiana town. The ripple effects afflict emergency workers, the nursing home staff, town officials, and the friends and families of the victims—both immediately and for weeks and months thereafter. Chillingly, those murdered often appear as ghosts, plaguing their family members with dangerous and surprising urges. Will a copycat shooter emerge from among them to kill again?

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    241 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publication date
    August 27, 2020
  4. File size
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"A taut, engrossing and talented debut novel that provides a mosaic of perspectives on a mental health horror story." -IndieReader Approved

"One of the creepiest, most peppery novels I've read in years." -Connie Shakalis, special to the Bloomington Herald-Times

About the Author

Carolyn Geduld is a mental health professional in Bloomington, Indiana. Her fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08B1LV1RX
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Rose Writing (August 27, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 27, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 555 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 241 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 out of 5 stars 128 ratings

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Carolyn Geduld

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Carolyn Geduld was raised in New York City, but spent all of her adult life in Bloomington, Indiana as a mental health professional. When she was in her 20s, she wrote book reviews for the Louisville Courier Journal, articles on the arts, and three books: one of these, "Filmguide to 2001," is still available on Amazon.

Between her 20s and her mid-70s, she focused on her mental health career and on raising her children. She did no writing. After her husband's long illness and death, she began writing fiction to heal. Although she did not write a memoir, her reserve of emotions found their way into numerous very dark short stories, many published in literary journals or anthologies, and in her debut novel "Take Me Out The Back."

Her long career in mental health as a trauma therapist gave her insight into how high stress affects individuals, as well as how mass tragedies affect communities. This has been another strong influence on her fiction.

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Customers find the book to be a great read with positive writing style. The suspenseful elements receive mixed reactions, with some finding it grimly fascinating while others note it's not exactly entertainment.

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"...this because I worked in a "skilled nursing facility" I enjoyed her style of writing and the format of switching the voice every chapter...." Read more

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  • J. Papuga
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book
    Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2021
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    I read quite a lot. I really enjoyed this book. I liked how the author took a scenario then chapter by chapter when into each character’s life and how this scenario intertwined with the trajectory. It was an unique approach and kept my interest.
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  • booklover
    4.0 out of 5 stars Unique Psychological Thriller
    Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2020
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    Many thanks to the author / Black Rose Writing / Netgalley for the digital copy of this unique psychological thriller. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

    It starts with a man killing his aging, sick mother. She had always told him ... if I ever get that bad, just take me out back and shoot me. So... that's what he did.

    But he continued on a killing spree, killing 10 people who were under hospice care in a nursing home. He then went out back and sat on a bench waiting for the police to show up. When they did, he waved an empty gun at them ... suicide by cop.

    This story is not precisely about the murders. It's the story of all those who were affected by what this man did. Each chapter is told by a different person ... family of the deceased, family of the killer, those who worked in the nursing home, first responders, the policeman who killed the shooter, clergy, and friends.... even a budding copy cat killer.

    These lives, in one way or another, will never be the same again.
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  • GeorgiaPavey
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good idea gone bad
    Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2020
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    Started out intriguing but became too sick. Ended confusing. Too bad. Could have been great story but then it foundered.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Many can be affected by one persons actions.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2020
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    While it was interesting to hear about this incident from various viewpoints I’d have liked to read a little bit more about some of the characters. That being said I felt very sorry for the maintenance man who not only took out his own mother but other unrelated people as well. How he must have been suffering mentally while companies nag to this decision. All in all a very good book.
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  • Bookzilla
    1.0 out of 5 stars Depressing Cliffhanger
    Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2020
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    Trigger warnings for multiple forms of abuse

    This cliffhanger is somewhat easy to follow but at times difficult to read due to emotions evoked. No editing errors or drag-you-down drama. There is graphic violence.

    Basically it is just a bunch of dysfunctional folks, most through no fault of their own, struggling and failing at life. There are additional cliffhangers of proposed and planned violence.

    Intriguing storyline with descriptive writing that draws the reader into each scene. Flexible procedures, actions and reactions. The characters and dialogue are okay.

    “Conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world—a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.”
    Ulrich Beck,
    German sociologist

    No desire to re-read this book. I doubt I will follow this author.
    Remember this is my personal opinion and does not reflect on the author.
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  • Susan K.
    5.0 out of 5 stars I just loved this book!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2020
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    The mass shooting in the Dementia unit at the nursing home is what ties all of these stories together-but each chapter could stand alone as well.
    Each character was crazy/interesting.
    I enjoyed reading this book!
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  • JackLens
    2.0 out of 5 stars Just not very well written
    Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2020
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    I wanted to love this book, with its really unique concept and story trajectory. But the execution just wasn't very good, and it really needed another edit. Punctuation and capitalization were all over the place, to a distracting degree. The author rarely if ever used a contraction, which made it all sound very jerky and robotic. On the prose side, we needed a whole lot more showing and less telling. Most of the chapters ended with no resolution (even implied future resolutions). We don't really get to know any of the characters. It's also very clear, when the book deals with young people, that the author is on the older side. (I also found it a bit silly that every single person in this small town had the most tragic backstory possible, but I'm willing to forgive that--that's kinda the nature of the beast here.)
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  • Jilly of the Valley
    4.0 out of 5 stars Grimly fascinating
    Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2021
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    That’s what my mother called this sort of book. It’s not exactly a novel; more of a lot of different ways of looking at an event, or the ways the same event affected multiple people. There’s no resolution. In fact, for a number of the people the event doesn’t resolve itself at all. It’s interesting to ponder but not something I’d want to re-read.
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    1.0 out of 5 stars Confused
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 8, 2021
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    I really didn't get this book random unfinished stories is there a sequel if not this is just odd and pointless
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