Gone too long : a novel /
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Dutton, [2019]Copyright date: 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 337 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
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- 9781524741969
- 1524741965
- 813/.6 23
- PS3618.O89265 G66 2019
- FIC030000 | FIC019000
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On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her front yard, ten-year-old Beth disappears from her Simmonsville, Georgia home. Seven years later, Imogene Coulter is burying her father - a Klan leader she has spent her life distancing herself from - and trying to escape the memories his funeral evokes. But she is forced to confront secrets long held by her own family when, while clearing out her father's apparent hideout on the day of his funeral, she finds a child. As Imogene begins to uncover the truth of what happened to Beth all those years ago, her father's heir-apparent to the Klan's leadership threatens her and her family.
On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her front yard, ten-year-old Beth disappears from her Simmonsville, Georgia, home. Armed with skills honed while caring for an alcoholic mother, she must battle to survive the days and months ahead. Seven years later, Imogene Coulter is burying her father--a Klan leader she has spent her life distancing herself from--and trying to escape the memories his funeral evokes. But Imogene is forced to confront secrets long held by Simmonsville and her own family when, while clearing out her father's apparent hideout on the day of his funeral, she finds a child. Young and alive, in an abandoned basement, and behind a door that only locks from the outside. As Imogene begins to uncover the truth of what happened to young Beth all those years ago, her father's heir apparent to the Klan's leadership threatens her and her family. Driven by a love that extends beyond the ties of blood, Imogene struggles to save a girl she never knew but will now be bound to forever, and to save herself and those dearest to her.
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Library Journal Review
Ten-year-old Beth knows she shouldn't sneak out of the house, but she wants to hide the Ku Klux Klan flyer that was thrown from a pickup truck. Then, Beth disappears. Seven years later, Imogene Coulter is back at the church where the funeral was held for her son and husband. Now, the town of Simmonsville, GA, mourns the death of Imogene's father, the local Klan leader. Imogene never wanted anything to do with the man, but she honors one request from her mother. When she enters the house close to their property, she finds a young boy locked in the basement. She rescues him just before the house catches fire, and Klan members descend on the family home. After years of mourning her own loss, she has a young boy to comfort while trying to uncover secrets her family and the Klan would prefer to bury. In alternating voices, Beth and Imogene tell their stories of abuse and horror, while Imogene's father-in-law, a former Klansman, warns that people have "gone too long" without paying attention. VERDICT This compelling, issue-oriented story by Edgar Award-winning author Roy (Bent Road) is a creepy, eerie account of a young girl and a community held hostage by the Klan. [See Prepub Alert, 12/6/18.]-Lesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN © Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Publishers Weekly Review
In this gripping, gut-wrenching thriller from Edgar-winner Roy (The Disappearing), a member of the local Ku Klux Klan in Simmonsville, Ga., kidnaps 10-year-old Beth, the daughter of a single mother, in a bungled attempt to scare Beth's Puerto Rican babysitter and the babysitter's family into leaving the area. Unwilling to kill Beth, her captor holds her prisoner in the basement of an outbuilding on a remote property used for Klan business. Seven years later, in 2017, Imogene Coulter, a foe of the Klan who's descended from a prominent Klansman, by chance discovers the basement, where she finds a boy, Christopher, who has been held there since infancy with Beth, and takes him home. Shortly before, Beth had escaped and is in hiding. The tension rises as Beth tries to survive and Imogene fights to safeguard Christopher (and herself) from his captors. Vividly told though somewhat implausibly plotted, Roy's tragic cautionary tale demonstrates what can happen when decent people allow themselves to be bullied into turning a blind eye while others do their worst, including murder. Greg Iles's fans will find a lot to like. Agent: Jenny Bent, Bent Agency. (June) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.Booklist Review
After her father's funeral, Imogene's curiosity defeats caution, and she goes looking for evidence of his sins in the abandoned house that he used as a hideaway. Behind the locked basement door, Imogene discovers a secret that blows away her suspicions of illicit mistresses and Klan meetings: a young boy is cowered beneath the stairs. His mother, he says, went with the man a long time ago and hasn't come back. As Imogene settles the child in her old bedroom, the house she pulled him from burns to the ground, along with any evidence of his captor. But Imogene knows that the basement prison is connected to the Klan; her father was the famed leader of the Knights of the Southern Georgia Order, followed loyally by her siblings and half of their town. Imogene is finished with letting them keep their secrets, and she confronts Klan enforcers and her family's ugly history to reveal the tragic story of a lost girl and her son. The space behind Roy's sensual descriptions of rural Georgia and Imogene's final, fierce defiance of her father's legacy is filled with a creeping, entangling sense of danger. It's the kind of writing you would expect from the Edgar-winning author, but it's made even more powerful here, filled with the purpose of exposing a hateful legacy and issuing a timely warning of its historical ebb and flow.--Christine Tran Copyright 2019 BooklistKirkus Book Review
White supremacy and family secrets fuel the latest Southern gothic thriller by a two-time Edgar Award-winning author.Imogene Coulter has spent most of her life in Simmonsville, Georgia, a small town named for her mother's familya family known for its connection to the Ku Klux Klan. Imogene's great-great-grandfather helped to revive the Klan in 1915. Edison Coulterthe man Imogene calls Daddyled the Knights of the Southern Georgia Order. Her brother, Eddie, her sister, Jo Lynne, and Jo Lynne's husband, Garland, are active members. Imogene has tried to distance herself from this legacy, and, for her mother's sake, she has tried to make peace with the full breadth and depth of her family's cruelty and corruption. Then Edison dies and Imogene finds a small child living in a boarded-up house on the family's farm. As she struggles to find the identity of this child, she uncovers a host of other crimes. The closer she gets to the truth, the harder she has to fight to protect herself and everyone she loves against competing factions within the Klan. Imogene finally discovers that her terrible heritage is something she must fight against rather than repress. Roy (The Disappearing, 2018, etc.) takes her time weaving in backstory and letting her characters reveal themselves, and thriller fans who read for plot might get a bit impatient. But those who settle in will be rewarded with a riveting mystery, brilliantly crafted and weighted with real-world resonance. The fact that hate groups are resurgent in the United States emerges as an essential element of this novel. The narrative is interspersed with brief historical notes beginning with the origins of the KKKand ending with the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.A timely thriller that will stay with the reader long after the last page has been turned. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Lori Roy is the author of Bent Road, winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel; Until She Comes Home, finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel; Let Me Die in His Footsteps, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel; and most recently, The Disappearing. She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, with her family.There are no comments on this title.