The Bright Forever: A Novel
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 1400097916 / Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books, May 2005
The disappearance of nine-year-old Katie Mackey, the daughter of the most affluent family in a small Indiana town, while riding her bicycle to town to return some library books, has profound repercussions for her entire family.
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On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books.This simple act is at the heart of The Bright Forever, a suspenseful novel about the choices people make that change their lives forever. Keeping fact, speculation, and contradiction playing off one another as the details unfold, author Lee Martin creates a fast-paced story that is as gripping as it is richly human. His prose builds to a nuanced portrayal of the complicated give and take among people struggling to maintain their humanity in the shadow of a loss.
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