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'If you look hard enough into the history of anything, you will discover things that seem to be connected but are not,' 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 taken after a motorcycle injury in Israel, where he'd worked with a man whose long-lost mother, in a New Jersey retirement community, recognizes him in a televised report about an Israeli-Palestinian skirmish. And that's not the half of it...Frederick Reiken spins an unlikely and yet utterly convincing and compelling story about people lost and found, refugees from their own lives or history's cruelties. They become linked to one another in ways that make the story almost like a mystery as one comes to know the characters - how, or where, in the world do they connect?
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Review:
"A compelling tale in which one thread deftly connects 10 people....An imaginative and exciting read."--Publishers Weekly
"Brilliant plotting, haunting characters and an elegiac tone distinguish this dazzling novel by Reiken...Contemporary fiction at its best-accessible, breathtaking and heartbreaking."--Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"What begins as a typical family drama becomes a chain reaction of plot twists. . . . . "Day for Night" is a beautiful test in patience, but by the end, you'll see it was worth the wait."--Very Short List
"An intricate, subtly fantastic, six-degrees-of-separation tale shaped by the beauty, continuity, and mystery of nature. . . . It's an entrancing and profoundly complicated tale Reiken tells as he slowly reveals the submerged connections among his intriguing characters while sustaining psychological sophistication, suspense, shrewd humor, and many-tiered compassion."--Booklist (starred)
"A thought-provoking, intricate portrait of the far-reaching, intergenerational implications of the Holocaust - and how fortuitous circumstances can bring people from both sides of a tragedy closer together, and, in some cases, further apart."--S. Kirk Walsh, Los Angeles Times
""Day for Night" is a joy and a rare thing, a feast for the mind and the heart that almost demands a second reading."--Daniel Goldin," Boswell Book Co./NPR"
"This novel magically and eloquently links swimming with manatees in Florida with a comatose young man held hostage in Utah, a fugitive radical woman, and a kibbutz on the Dead Sea. It's beautifully written, magnificently cerebral, entirely compelling."-- Ellen Meeropol, Odyssey Bookshop
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"Brilliant plotting, haunting characters and an elegiac tone distinguish this dazzling novel by Reiken...Contemporary fiction at its best-accessible, breathtaking and heartbreaking."--Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"What begins as a typical family drama becomes a chain reaction of plot twists. . . . . "Day for Night" is a beautiful test in patience, but by the end, you'll see it was worth the wait."--Very Short List
"An intricate, subtly fantastic, six-degrees-of-separation tale shaped by the beauty, continuity, and mystery of nature. . . . It's an entrancing and profoundly complicated tale Reiken tells as he slowly reveals the submerged connections among his intriguing characters while sustaining psychological sophistication, suspense, shrewd humor, and many-tiered compassion."--Booklist (starred)
"A thought-provoking, intricate portrait of the far-reaching, intergenerational implications of the Holocaust - and how fortuitous circumstances can bring people from both sides of a tragedy closer together, and, in some cases, further apart."--S. Kirk Walsh, Los Angeles Times
""Day for Night" is a joy and a rare thing, a feast for the mind and the heart that almost demands a second reading."--Daniel Goldin," Boswell Book Co./NPR"
"This novel magically and eloquently links swimming with manatees in Florida with a comatose young man held hostage in Utah, a fugitive radical woman, and a kibbutz on the Dead Sea. It's beautifully written, magnificently cerebral, entirely compelling."-- Ellen Meeropol, Odyssey Bookshop
* Literary fiction at its finest, DAY FOR NIGHT explores with insight and intelligence how lives might connect in this novel that encompasses many different notions of family - out now in paperback
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- PublisherLittle, Brown
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1408702312
- ISBN 13 9781408702314
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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