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More News Tomorrow

A Novel

by Susan Richards Shreve
Emily Sutton-Smith
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A thrilling and richly drawn family drama about a daughter's quest to understand her mother's mysterious death. On the morning of her seventieth birthday, Georgianna Grove receives an unexpected letter that calls her back to Missing Lake, Wisconsin, where her mother was murdered sixty-six years earlier. Georgie's father had confessed to the murder the next morning and was carted off to a state penitentiary. Haunted by the night that took both her parents away and determined to unearth the truth, Georgie takes her reluctant family on what will become a dangerous canoe trip up the swollen Bone River to return to Missing Lake. Acclaimed novelist Susan Richards Shreve, celebrated for her "refined explorations of parent-child relationships" (Washington Post), captures the tenor of the times with clarity and elegance as she follows both Georgie and her parents on parallel trips up the Bone River, weaving together the hope of June 2008 with the injustices of June 1941. Georgie must untangle a web of bigotry, loss, and half-forgotten memories to finally understand her parents' fate. More News Tomorrow is a stirring and irresistible portrait of a family drawn together in search of truth.

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  • Release date

    June 4, 2019

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781684570003
      • File size: 207915 KB
      • Duration: 07:13:09

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 12, 2019
      The latest from Shreve (You Are the Love of My Life) is a stirring tale of an elderly woman seeking the truth about her mother’s six-decade old murder in Missing Lake, Wis. In 1941, Georgie Grove’s mother was found strangled; her father confessed to the murder the following day. In 2007, on her 70th birthday, Georgie receives a letter from Roosevelt McCrary, an 11-year-old boy at the time of the crime who has a connection to Georgie’s family. Roosevelt still lives in the area where the crime happened and asks Georgie if she’d like to meet. Georgie plans the trip to Missing Lake to investigate, to the delight of her 13-year-old grandson, Thomas, a fledgling writer. The rest of her family agree to go along on the mission, including her son, Nicolas, daughters Rosie and Venus, grandson Jesse, and four-year-old granddaughter, Oona. But the trajectory of the fact-finding trip shifts after Oona goes missing. The story is excellently balanced between Georgie’s internal thoughts and the search for the truth behind her mother’s death. Shreve’s fans will be captivated by the complex narrative of families, secrets, and lies.

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