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The prizewinning author of The Odd Sea and The Lost Legends of New Jersey offers this dazzling and moving novel about a family's mysterious past.

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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." So 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 transported after a motorcycle injury in Israel, where he works with a man whose long-lost mother, in a retirement community in New Jersey, recognizes him in a televised report about an Israeli-Palestinian skirmish? And that's not the half of it.

In Day for Night, critically acclaimed writer Reiken spins an unlikely and yet utterly convincing story about people lost and found. They are all refugees from their own lives or history's cruelties, yet they wind up linked to each other in compelling and unpredictable ways that will keep you guessing until the very end.

"Laural Merlington and George Wilson triumph in their narrations… [and] expertly unravel [the] mystery through their consistently nuanced characters." ---AudioFile

"Reiken...slowly reveals the submerged connections among his intriguing characters while sustaining psychological sophistication, suspense, shrewd humor, and many-tiered compassion." ---Booklist Starred Review

"Brilliant plotting, haunting characters, and an elegiac tone distinguish this dazzling novel." ---Kirkus Starred Review

"Day for Night does what really good books so often do by forcing us to see the familiar world in new ways that reveal its wonder." ---Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls
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Day for Night

A Novel

Author Frederick Reiken

Narrated by George K. Wilson, Laural Merlington

Publication date May 24, 2010

Running time 12 hrs

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