More News Tomorrow, Susan Richards Shreve
More News Tomorrow, Susan Richards Shreve
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More News Tomorrow
A Novel

Author: Susan Richards Shreve

Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith

Unabridged: 7 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2019

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Women


Synopsis

A thrilling and richly drawn family drama about a daughter's quest to understand her mother's mysterious death.

On the morning of her seventieth birthday, Georgianna Grove receives an unexpected letter that calls her back to Missing Lake, Wisconsin, where her mother was murdered sixty-six years earlier. Georgie's father had confessed to the murder the next morning and was carted off to a state penitentiary. Haunted by the night that took both her parents away and determined to unearth the truth, Georgie takes her reluctant family on what will become a dangerous canoe trip up the swollen Bone River to return to Missing Lake.

Acclaimed novelist Susan Richards Shreve, celebrated for her "refined explorations of parent-child relationships" (Washington Post), captures the tenor of the times with clarity and elegance as she follows both Georgie and her parents on parallel trips up the Bone River, weaving together the hope of June 2008 with the injustices of June 1941. Georgie must untangle a web of bigotry, loss, and half-forgotten memories to finally understand her parents' fate.

More News Tomorrow is a stirring and irresistible portrait of a family drawn together in search of truth.

About Susan Richards Shreve

Susan Richards Shreve is the author of fifteen novels, a memoir, and thirty books for children. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment grant, among other honors. A professor of creative writing at George Mason University and former chairman of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Shreve lives in Washington, D.C.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Amy

I won this book in exchange for an honest review... Sadly, I wasn’t very impressed with this book at all. It wasn’t bad enough for me to stop reading it, but I just felt like I didn’t get anything out of it, which isn’t a good feeling to have after finishing a book. Especially one that you had higher......more

Imagine you secretly video your neighbors celebrating their grandmothers 70th birthday. Her three children and their children sitting around the table reminiscing. I'm sure they had a good time but it's not much fun for the rest of us. That's what this book felt like. I'm not interested in my neighbo......more

A family digs into an unsolved murder 67 years later, unearthing more than they/we imagined (Washington, DC 2008 back to 1941 northern Wisconsin): Imagination dominates More News Tomorrow, Susan Richards Shreve’s cunning fifteenth novel. Dropping seductive literary breadcrumbs bit by bit, the reader......more

Goodreads review by Andrews

Gentle, and carefully observed, but muted and slighter than it promises... with a milquetoast, anodyne title that should’ve tipped me off to the whole affair.......more