Title: Long Bright River Pdf A Novel
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick "[Moore's] careful balance of the hard-bitten with the heartfelt is what elevates Long Bright River from entertaining page-turner to a book that makes you want to call someone you love." (The New York Times Book Review) "This is police procedural and a thriller par excellence, one in which the city of Philadelphia itself is a character (think Boston and Mystic River). But it's also a literary tale narrated by a strong woman with a richly drawn personal life - powerful and genre-defying." (People) "A thoughtful, powerful novel by a writer who displays enormous compassion for her characters. Long Bright River is an outstanding crime novel.... I absolutely loved it." (Paula Hawkins, number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Girl on the Train) Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different. Then one of them goes missing. In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling. Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district, and Mickey becomes dangerously obsessed with finding the culprit - and her sister - before it's too late. Alternating its present-day mystery with the story of the sisters' childhood and adolescence, Long Bright River is at once heart-pounding and heart-wrenching: a gripping suspense novel that is also a moving story of sisters, addiction, and the formidable ties that persist between place, family, and fate.
Speaking of drugs, send Prozac I can see I’m an outlier here, but I really didn’t enjoy this book. Admittedly, the subject matter is grim (broken families, working class neighborhoods, kids dropping out of school, poverty, drugs, sex workers, murder), but lord, this is BLEAK.Perhaps it would have been easier to take if Mickey had been a more likeable protagonist, but she’s not. She’s 33 and still hasn’t stopped resenting things that happened when she was a kid. She’s humorless. She's self-righteous. She has thirteen years on the police force, but claims she can’t afford a decent apartment or reliable childcare and spends a crazy % of the book arranging it, mostly asking for it free or sub-minimum wage from other women. She seems to spend almost nothing on clothes (but resents women who do); she barely drinks, doesn’t smoke – where is her money going? Why hasn't she, after almost five years, realized that she needs reliable childcare?Google tells me that cops with her seniority in PA make a lot more than school teachers, (as in, they make $60-$80k/yr: nowhere near poverty. The author describes it as poverty; it is not) yet she aspires to be a teacher because (as far as I can tell) she thinks it’s a classier occupation. I mean, yes, her childhood was terrible, but people have overcome worse without a massive chip on the shoulder and lingering class resentment.The other characters are very thinly-drawn. Is it my imagination or are all the men a bit slow-witted?I apologize if I have any of my facts about the book wrong, but I am NOT going through the pain of reading it twice. Such a shame, since the book has been widely hyped in the media and is to be filmed. If I were Amy Pascal, I’d hire rewrite on the Mickey character.Don't waste your time Difficult to follow because of the purposeful lack of proper punctuation. Too many explicit descriptions of streets and locations in Philadelphia that were unnecessary and unrelated to story. This was one of the worst books I've read in recent memory and am being generous with 2 stars. Don't waste your time or money. Obviously, I don't recommend this book.This book is for everyone! I am already predicting Long Bright River to be in my top 5 of favorite books for 2020!Long Bright River is brutally honest about the grittiness around dysfunctional families, the opioid epidemic, and sex work. Liz Moore's writing is intense and so real. I had a two day book hangover after finishing this book and I cannot wait for the movie being produced by Amy Pascal and Neal H. Moritz!Told in alternating timelines - Sisters, Mickey and Kacey, grew up inseparable after losing both parents to the opioid epidemic in the heart of Philadelphia. Mickey and Kacey were taken in by their Grandmother who was very open about the fact that she resented the fact that she was raising her granddaughters. When the girl were in their early teens, they started attending an after school program that was staffed by local police officers. Mickey found herself being mentored by a young male officer, while Kacey started hanging around other troubled teens.Fast forward to their early 30s - Mickey is a single mom and beat cop, while Kacey is a sex worker and addicted to drugs. Mickey's beat covers Kacey's working area, so she keeps an eye on her even though they haven't spoken in 5 years. When sex workers start ending up dead, Kacey goes missing, and Mickey's captain doesn't seem too worried about the dead sex workers, Mickey becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to her sister.
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