On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books.<br><br>This simple act is at the heart of <i>The Bright Forever</i>, a suspenseful, deeply affecting novel about the choices people make that change their lives forever. Keeping fact, speculation, and contradiction playing off one another as the details unfold, author Lee Martin creates a fast-paced story that is as gripping as it is richly human. His beautiful, clear-eyed prose builds to an extremely nuanced portrayal of the complicated give and take among people struggling to maintain their humanity in the shadow of a loss.<br><br>Reminiscent of books such as<i> The Little Friend </i>and <i>The Lovely Bones</i>, but most memorable for its own perceptions and power,<i> The Bright Forever</i> is a compelling and emotional tale about the human need to know even the hardest truth. <br><br>A Featured Alternate of the Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, and Book-of-the-Month Club<br><br>Also available as a Books on Tape AudioBook and an eBook