Day for Night, Frederick Reiken
Day for Night, Frederick Reiken
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Day for Night
A Novel

Author: Frederick Reiken

Narrator: Laural Merlington, George K. Wilson

Unabridged: 11 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/24/2010

Synopsis

"If you look hard enough into the history of anything, you will discover things that seem to be connected but are not." So claims a character in Frederick Reiken's wonderful, surprising novel, which seems, in fact, to be determined to prove just the opposite. How else to explain the threads that link a middle-aged woman on vacation in Florida with a rock and roll singer visiting her comatose brother in Utah, where he's been transported after a motorcycle injury in Israel, where he works with a man whose long-lost mother, in a retirement community in New Jersey, recognizes him in a televised report about an Israeli-Palestinian skirmish? And that's not the half of it.

In Day for Night, critically acclaimed writer Reiken spins an unlikely and yet utterly convincing story about people lost and found. They are all refugees from their own lives or history's cruelties, yet they wind up linked to each other in compelling and unpredictable ways that will keep you guessing until the very end.

About Frederick Reiken

Frederick Reiken is the award-winning author of the novels The Odd Sea and The Lost Legends of New Jersey. His short stories have been published in the New Yorker, and his essays appear in the anthology Living on the Edge of the World. He has worked as a reporter and columnist and is currently a member of the writing faculty at Emerson College.

Reviews

Goodreads review by switterbug (Betsey) on February 22, 2011

The cover of the book, of a carousel submerged into an ocean, the tip visible, is a stunning metaphor of the book itself, as well as a literal scene in one of the book's early chapters. It represents our continuing, revolving narratives, partly hidden from our consciousness, the ocean a repository o......more

Goodreads review by Julie on May 26, 2012

Written as a series of discrete, first-person stories, Frederick Reiken weaves a narrative built from the nexus of the Holocaust. In August 1941, five hundred Jewish intellectuals gathered in Kovno, Lithuania under the pretense they had been selected by the SS for specialized research and archival w......more

Goodreads review by Megan on May 18, 2010

This book was very, very okay - which is too bad because I really wanted it to be good. Each chapter represents the story of a different person's life that just happens to be interconnected to the life of one of the previous characters, and by the end they all are connected. This writing convention h......more

Goodreads review by Roger on June 12, 2016

Re-Joining I had several different reactions while reading this intriguing book, as its nature began slowly to reveal itself. First came wonder at the beautiful evocative opening chapter, "Yesterday's Day," which the author had previously published as a stand-alone story. Beverly, a New York doctor h......more

Goodreads review by Bram on September 09, 2017

Impressive, the construction is very obvious, but also extremely well done and the writing is just clever. Couldn't put it down. However (1), at the end I got a bit lost - too many loose ends were still loose, and I wanted to know what would happen, or why things had happened. I'm not sure whether I......more

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