The Bright Forever: A Novel
May 2005 · Crown
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A “cleanly written [and] artful . . . page-turner” (San Francisco Chronicle) about a nine-year-old girl’s disappearance and the lasting impact it has on her close-knit community
“Compelling . . . both harrowing and deeply felt.”—New York Daily News
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, moving novel about the choices people make that change their lives forever. Playing fact, speculation, and contradiction off one another as the details unfold, Lee Martin creates a fast-paced story that’s as gripping as it is richly human. His beautiful, clear-eyed, spartan prose builds to an extremely nuanced portrayal of the complicated give and take among people struggling to maintain their humanity in the shadow of loss.
Memorable for its perceptions and power, The Bright Forever is a captivating and emotional tale about the human need to know even the hardest truths.
“Compelling . . . both harrowing and deeply felt.”—New York Daily News
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, moving novel about the choices people make that change their lives forever. Playing fact, speculation, and contradiction off one another as the details unfold, Lee Martin creates a fast-paced story that’s as gripping as it is richly human. His beautiful, clear-eyed, spartan prose builds to an extremely nuanced portrayal of the complicated give and take among people struggling to maintain their humanity in the shadow of loss.
Memorable for its perceptions and power, The Bright Forever is a captivating and emotional tale about the human need to know even the hardest truths.
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Amy Ziemba
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June 26, 2016
It was sickening to me...I guess good literature but story line made me sick
About the author
Lee Martin is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright Forever, the novel Quakertown, the story collection The Least You Need to Know, and the memoirs From Our House and Turning Bones. He has won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, a Lawrence Foundation Award, the Glenna Luschei Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Martin lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he directs the creative writing program at The Ohio State University.
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