On the morning of her seventieth birthday, Georgianna Grove receives an
unexpected letter that calls her back to Missing Lake, Wisconsin, where
her mother was murdered sixty-six years earlier. Georgie's father had
confessed to the murder the next morning and was carted off to a state
penitentiary. Haunted by the night that took both her parents away and
determined to unearth the truth, Georgie takes her reluctant family on
what will become a dangerous canoe trip up the swollen Bone River to
return to Missing Lake.
Acclaimed novelist Susan Richards Shreve, celebrated for her "refined
explorations of parent-child relationships" (Washington Post),
captures the tenor of the times with clarity and elegance as she follows
both Georgie and her parents on parallel trips up the Bone River,
weaving together the hope of June 2008 with the injustices of June 1941.
Georgie must untangle a web of bigotry, loss, and half-forgotten
memories to finally understand her parents' fate.
More News Tomorrow is a stirring and irresistible portrait of a family
drawn together in search of truth.