Brilliant River Book Review: Mickey's Lengthy Tale

Barack Obama has named 'A Promised Land' as one of his favorite books this year. This brilliant account chronicles his journey along the lengthy and insightful river of his life, penned by the talented author Mickey.

In 2020, NPR, Parade, Real Simple, and BuzzFeed all recognized "Brilliant River" as one of the greatest books.

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According to The New York Times Book Review, the blend of cautious stability and heartfelt emotion in Moore’s Lengthy Brilliant River transforms it from a mere page-turner into a captivating book that might just inspire you to reach out to someone you care about.

“That is police procedural and a thriller par excellence, one during which the town of Philadelphia itself is a personality (assume Boston and Mystic River ). But it surely’s additionally a literary story narrated by a robust lady with a richly drawn private life – highly effective and genre-defying.” ( Folks )

“A considerate, highly effective novel by a author who shows monumental compassion for her characters.  Lengthy Brilliant River  is an impressive crime novel…. I completely cherished it.” (Paula Hawkins, primary New York Occasions best-selling writer of  The Lady on the Practice )

Two sisters journey the identical streets, although their lives could not be extra totally different. Then one in every of them goes lacking.

In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid disaster, two once-inseparable sisters discover themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets within the vise of habit. The opposite, Mickey, walks those self same blocks on her police beat. They do not converse anymore, however Mickey by no means stops worrying about her sibling.

Then Kacey disappears, abruptly, on the similar time {that a} mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey’s district, and Mickey turns into dangerously obsessive about discovering the wrongdoer – and her sister – earlier than it is too late.

Alternating its present-day thriller with the story of the sisters’ childhood and adolescence, Lengthy Brilliant River is directly heart-pounding and heart-wrenching: A gripping suspense novel that can be a shifting story of sisters, habit, and the formidable ties that persist between place, household, and destiny.