OLLI101238 - OLLI EXTRA - Book Release Talk - Long Bright River

Course Description

Liz Moore

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

LONG BRIGHT RIVER

Friday, December 4 from 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

(Registration closes December 3 at NOON))

Long Bright River is a gripping story about two Philadelphia sisters that masterfully blends the heart-pounding pace and drama of crime fiction with the emotional intimacy of a family story. Set against a vivid neighborhood in Philadelphia rocked by the opioid crisis, Liz Moore does for Philly in Long Bright River what Dennis Lehane does for Boston or Richard Price does for the Lower East Side: she gives readers a gritty, cinematic, street-level crime story so integrated into its setting, the place is almost a character itself. At the heart of the novel are two sisters who occupy the exact same neighborhood, but lead drastically different lives: one is a police officer, while the other suffers from heroin addiction and lives on the streets. Once inseparable, they haven’t spoken for years, but when women start being murdered in the area and one sister goes missing, the other must risk everything to figure out what happened and to save her sister.

Liz Moore teaches in the MFA program at Temple University and lives in Philadelphia.

This event is only open to OLLI Members. ( Full year and Fall 2020 memberships)