Description A gripping and deftly plotted narrative of family and belonging, Lights All Night Long is a dazzling debut novel from an acclaimed young writer "Lights All Night Long is utterly brilliant and completely captivating.
She was a Walla.
Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, One Story, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere.
About the author Lydia Fitzpatrick\'s work has appeared in the The O.
A rich tale of belonging and the pull of homes both native and adopted, Lights All Night Long is a spellbinding story of the fierce bond between brothers determined to find a way back to each other.
Piecing together the timeline of the murders and Vladimir\'s descent into addiction, Ilya discovers the radical lengths to which Vladimir has gone to protect him--a truth he could only have learned by leaving him behind.
With the help of Sadie, who has secrets of her own, Ilya embarks on a mission to prove Vladimir\'s innocence.
Just before Ilya left, the murders of three young women rocked the town\'s usual calm, and Vladimir found himself in prison.
But when Ilya was tapped for the exchange, Vladimir disappeared into their town\'s seedy, drug-plagued underworld.
The two have always been close, spending their days dreaming of escaping to America.
But all is not right in Ilya\'s world: he\'s consumed by the fate of his older brother Vladimir, the magnetic rebel to Ilya\'s dutiful wunderkind, back in their tiny Russian hometown.
And Sadie, their beautiful and enigmatic daughter, has miraculously taken an interest in him.
The abundance of his new world--the Super Walmarts and heated pools and enormous televisions--is as hard to fathom as the relentless cheerfulness of his host parents.
One of the most propulsive, un-put-downable literary novels I\'ve read in ages."--Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Fifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange student. . . .
Description A gripping and deftly plotted narrative of family and belonging, Lights All Night Long is a dazzling debut novel from an acclaimed young writer "Lights All Night Long is utterly brilliant and completely captivating
