The Bright Forever

On an evening like any other 9-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 deeply affecting 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 beautiful clear-eyed prose builds to an extremely nuanced portrayal of the complicated give and take among people struggling to maintain their humanity in the shadow of a loss.Reminiscent of books such as The Little Friend and The Lovely Bones but most memorable for its own perceptions and power The Bright Forever is a compelling and emotional tale about the human need to know even the hardest truth.