JULY 2021 INDIE NEXT PICK With this novel, Kim Hooper has created magic from the seemingly impossible.
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Two police officers tell her that Jed is dead, shot at the bar.
It\'s not Jed, though.
Joyce wakes up to a knock at her front door, a knock she assumes is her wayward son, Jed, who must have lost his keys.
When it comes to light that five people were killed, she is burdened with the question of why she survived.
Tessa is the twenty-three-year-old bartender who escapes to a backroom storage closet during the shooting.
The officer tells her that her husband was involved in a shooting at a local bar, but how can that be possible when her husband is sleeping right next to her? Except when she turns to wake him, he isn\'t there.
When Angie is awakened by a midnight call from an officer with the Boise Police Department, she thinks there must be a misunderstanding.
So begins the story of three women tied together by tragic fate--a wife trying to understand why her now-comatose husband was frequenting a bar in the middle of the night, the young woman who her husband was apparently pursuing, and a mother who is forced to confront the reality of who her son was and who she is.
Then they deliver even worse news: We have reason to believe your son was the shooter.
Two police officers tell her that Jed is dead, shot at the bar.
It\'s not Jed, though.
Joyce wakes up to a knock at her front door, a knock she assumes is her wayward son, Jed, who must have lost his keys.
When it comes to light that five people were killed, she is burdened with the question of why she survived.
Tessa is the twenty-three-year-old bartender who escapes to a backroom storage closet during the shooting.
The officer tells her that her husband was involved in a shooting at a local bar, but how can that be possible when her husband is sleeping right next to her? Except when she turns to wake him, he isn\'t there. -Brad Silberling, Writer/Director of Moonlight Mile, Director of City of Angels When Angie is awakened by a midnight call from an officer with the Boise Police Department, she thinks there must be a misunderstanding.
Honest, brave, messy and unsparing, her characters are fearless pioneers in the darkness, and ultimately shed light for us on the most precious gift of all...life after loss.
In her hands, the gossamer threads that tie three perfect strangers to each other following a shared tragedy, become nothing less than a transformative bond of human connection.
JULY 2021 INDIE NEXT PICK With this novel, Kim Hooper has created magic from the seemingly impossible
