“Katie Arnold-Ratliff creates a superb debut novel, depicting her characters with wit and depth. Francis Mason, an elementary schoolteacher, becomes tossed between past and present, real and imagined, after the discovery of a dead body on a field trip—a body Francis believes to be his high school love. Wedged between today’s unhappy marriage and his romanticized past, Francis spirals into obsession, fear and addiction. Francis must confront his past and find the woman he believes holds his heart before he can live his ‘real’ life.”—Seth, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle
Face Out
Bright Before Us by Katie Arnold-Ratliff
May 24, 2011