A Long Time Gone

Author: White, Karen

Brand: NAL

Color: Grey

Edition: Reprint

Binding: paperback

Format: Deckle Edge

Number Of Pages: 448

Release Date: 07-04-2015

Part Number: Refer to Sapnet.

Details: Product Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels comes an enthralling southern gothic saga about one woman's quest for the truth...

When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore never to go back. But in the spring, nine years to the day since she’d left, Vivien returns, fleeing from a broken marriage and her lost dreams for children.

What she hopes to find is solace with her dear grandmother who raised her, a Walker woman with a knack for making everything all right. Instead Vivien is forced into the unexpected role of caretaker, challenging her personal quest to find the girl she once was. But things will change again in ways Vivien cannot imagine. A violent storm has revealed the remains of a long-dead woman buried near the Walker home, not far from the cypress swamp that is soon to give up its ghosts.

Vivien knows there is now only one way to rediscover herself—by uncovering the secrets of her family and breaking the cycle of loss that has haunted them for generations.


READERS GUIDE INCLUDED
Review
“This multi-generational family saga is a book you could get lost in.”—
Delta Magazine

“This southern saga of life in Mississippi is one of White's best.”—The Huffington Post

“Gothic gold.”—
The Atlantan

“Emotionally satisfying.”—
Kirkus Reviews

“Something for almost everyone: betrayal, murder, history, family secrets, and a little romance. Readers will find it difficult to put this one down.”—
Library Journal

“Karen White’s best novel to date…Use your vacation reading to escape and immerse in this world White has so deftly created. It’s so real that it’s hard to leave at the end.”—
The Herald-Sun“White’s latest unforgettable page-turner features a murder-mystery masterpiece from the past that lures and captivates the reader. Her colorful narrative is melodious and haunting, and gives a Tennessee Williams-like aura to the awesomely depicted places and all of her impeccably played and fantastic characters. Brava!”—
RT Book Reviews 

“Something for almost everyone: betrayal, murder, history, family secrets, and a little romance. Readers will find it difficult to put this one down.”—
Library Journal
About the Author
Karen White is the 
New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including the Tradd Street series,
The Night the Lights Went Out, 
Flight Patterns, 
The Sound of Glass, 
A Long Time Gone, and 
The Time Between. She is the coauthor of 
The Forgotton Room with 
New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. She grew up in London but now lives with her husband and two children near Atlanta, Georgia.
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New American Library Titles by Karen White


Acknowledgments


Chapter 1
Vivien Walker Moise
INDIAN MOUND, MISSISSIPPIAPRIL 2013
I was born in the same bed that my mama was born in, and her mama before her, and even further back than anybody alive could still remember. It was as if the black wood of the bedposts were meant to root us Walker women to this place of flat fields and fertile soil carved from the great Mississippi. But like the levees built to control the mighty river, it never held us for long.
We were born screaming into this world, the beginning of a lifelong quest to find what would quiet us. Our legacy was our ability to coax living things from fallow ground, along with a desperate need to see what lay beyond the delta. A need to quell a hurt whose source was as unexplainable as its force.
Whatever it was that drove us away was never stronger than the pull of what brought us back. Maybe it was the feel of the dark Mississippi mud or the memory of the old house and the black bed into which we’d been born, but no matter how far we ran, we always came back.
I returned in the spring nearly nine years to the day after I’d left. I’d driven straight through from Los Angeles, twenty-seven hours of asphal

EAN: 9780451468550

Package Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches

Languages: English