Long Bright River
Liz MooreWhen so-called literary writers deign to try their hands at crime fiction, they often do so with mixed results. In the worst cases, they condescend to the genre, as if they were doing readers a favor by lifting up such a lowly form. In the best cases (and Liz Moore’s Long Bright River happily fits into this category), they come to the genre naturally, finding in it the narrative structure best suited for the story they hope to tell.
Long Bright River is both a big story and a small one. Featuring a police officer whose relationship with her sister was destroyed by addiction, it tells the deeply personal story of her family’s issues alongside the larger story of Philadelphia in the throws of the opioid epidemic. The sisters still encounter each other occasionall
