{"product_id":"a-long-time-gone","title":"A Long Time Gone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e White, Karen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e NAL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e Grey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e Reprint\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Deckle Edge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 07-04-2015\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e Refer to Sapnet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nFrom 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...\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nREADERS GUIDE INCLUDED\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\n“This multi-generational family saga is a book you could get lost in.”—\u003cbr\u003e\nDelta Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n “This southern saga of life in Mississippi is one of White's best.”—The Huffington Post\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Gothic gold.”—\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Atlantan\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Emotionally satisfying.”—\u003cbr\u003e\nKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Something for almost everyone: betrayal, murder, history, family secrets, and a little romance. Readers will find it difficult to put this one down.”—\u003cbr\u003e\nLibrary Journal\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n “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.”—\u003cbr\u003e\nThe 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!”—\u003cbr\u003e\nRT Book Reviews \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Something for almost everyone: betrayal, murder, history, family secrets, and a little romance. Readers will find it difficult to put this one down.”—\u003cbr\u003e\nLibrary Journal\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nKaren White is the \u003cbr\u003e\nNew York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including the Tradd Street series,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Night the Lights Went Out, \u003cbr\u003e\nFlight Patterns, \u003cbr\u003e\nThe Sound of Glass, \u003cbr\u003e\nA Long Time Gone, and \u003cbr\u003e\nThe Time Between. She is the coauthor of \u003cbr\u003e\nThe Forgotton Room with \u003cbr\u003e\nNew 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.      \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nNew American Library Titles by Karen White\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nChapter 1\u003cbr\u003e\nVivien Walker Moise\u003cbr\u003e\nINDIAN MOUND, MISSISSIPPIAPRIL 2013\u003cbr\u003e\nI 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nWe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nWhatever 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nI returned in the spring nearly nine years to the day after I’d left. 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