Day for Night - Tapa blanda

'If you look hard enough into the history of anything, you will discover things that seem to be connected but are not,' claims a character in Frederick Reiken's wonderful, surprising novel, which seems in fact to be determined to prove just the opposite. How else to explain the threads that link a middle-aged woman on vacation in Florida with a rock and roll singer visiting her comatose brother in Utah, where he's been taken after a motorcycle injury in Israel, where he'd worked with a man whose long-lost mother, in a New Jersey retirement community, recognizes him in a televised report about an Israeli-Palestinian skirmish. And that's not the half of it...Frederick Reiken spins an unlikely and yet utterly convincing and compelling story about people lost and found, refugees from their own lives or history's cruelties. They become linked to one another in ways that make the story almost like a mystery as one comes to know the characters - how, or where, in the world do they connect?

Frederick Reiken lives in the US where he has worked as a reporter and columnist. Currently a member of the writing faculty at Emerson College, he is the author of the novels The Odd Sea and The Lost Legends of New Jersey.