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A Friend from Chile

The seeds of a novel are sown in a friend’s disappearance

By Jill McCroskey Coupe | December 8, 2017

Worrying for years about a question with no answer is more than a little neurotic. It can also provide fertile soil for plot development.

Distant Sons

Tim Johnston
Algonquin Books
400 pages
$29

“Tim Johnston has once again raised the bar for the literary thriller. Distant Sons is elegant and edgy, refined and complex. It excavates the truth from the darkest recesses of the past and shines a light towards the possibility of a redemptive future.”

~ Ivy Pochoda, author of These Women and Sing Her Down