Bright and Tender Dark

✍ Scribed by Joanna Pearson

• Book ID: 115173485
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 811 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781639732906

✦ Synopsis

**For readers of Notes on an Execution and I Have Some Questions for You, a wire-taut literary debut about a murder on a college campus and its aftermath twenty years later.

"Bright and Tender Dark . . . will sweep you away." -Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth
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"_A haunting and lyrical read" -Becky Cooper, author of We Keep the Dead Close

Days after the dawn of Y2K, beautiful, charismatic nineteen-year-old Karlie Richards is found brutally murdered in her campus apartment. Two decades later, those who knew Karlie-and those who just knew of her-remain consumed by her death. Among them is her freshman-year roommate, Joy, now middle-aged and mid-divorce, living in the same college town and desperate for a new beginning. When she stumbles upon a twenty-year-old letter from Karlie, Joy becomes convinced the man in prison for her murder was wrongfully convicted. Soon she is diving deep...