On the back cover of “Beartooth,” a blurb from novelist Junot Diaz compares it to “A Simple Plan,” which is both high praise and a very dangerous game to be playing. “A Simple Plan,” which became a ...

“A Simple Plan,” which became a terrific Minnesota-set movie in 1998 ... But Hazen, who the book implies has an unspecified intellectual disability (also like one of the brothers in ...