Long and Faraway Gone (Berney) - Book Reviews

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The two key players [Wyatt and Julianna] in Lou Berney's superb regional mystery…suffer from separate but equally crushing cases of survivor guilt…Berney tells both their stories with supreme sensitivity, exploring "the landscape of memory" that keeps shifting beneath our feet, opening up the graves of all those ghosts we thought we'd buried
Marilyn Stasio - New York Times Book Review


[T]hat rare literary gem—a dark, quintessentially cool noir novel that is both deeply poignant, and very funny...as hip, hilarious, and entertaining as it is wrenching, beautiful, and ultimately redemptive.
Huffington Post


(Starred review.) Edgar Award–finalist Berney will raise a lump in the throats of many of his readers with this sorrowful account of two people's efforts to come to terms with devastating trauma.... The leads' struggles are portrayed with painful complexity, and Berney, fittingly, avoids easy answers.

(Starred review.) Focused, very insightfully, on love, loss, and memory . . . fully realized creations that readers won’t soon forget. A genuinely memorable novel of ideas.
Booklist


So much to love here...easy to read yet difficult to forget.... Berney is a mighty fine wordsmith whose name should be mentioned more often than it is during discussions of new bright lights in the literary world.
Bookreporter.com


(Starred review.) Twenty-five years after a devastating shooting and the unrelated disappearance of a teenage girl, the survivors of both events struggle to find out what really happened so they can move on with their separate lives.... The novel smartly avoids being coy.... But both characters do achieve their own kind of closure.... A mystery with a deep, wounded heart. Read it.
Kirkus Reviews