Caleb was driving home for Christmas. Steven was pounding beers at a local bar. Matthew was out looking for his ex-girlfriend. Leo was walking in the woods on a winter night. Then they disappeared. Days, weeks, years later, their bodies turn up in icy rivers hundreds of miles apart. How did they get there?
Mesmerizing and luminous ... A literary mystery with a supernatural twist, rooted in humanity and enduring love ... Weaves together a wide assortment of characters and dovetailing narratives, which in less capable hands might read as meandering and confusing.
Wonderful ... Interesting ... In total, Castellani does a fairly incredible thing: He removes his central narrators from the action of the story and instead builds a world that remembers them and, further, can’t hide from the truths and confessions in their memory.
Chapters are organized in a way that at first can feel overwhelming, but becomes captivating ... The novel does an excellent job building eight strong point-of-view characters, making all of their realistic lives, concerns, and struggles interesting ... Extremely well-done. The plot and mysteries are engaging, the characters are complex, the moralities ambiguous and thought-provoking.
