Thursday, April 24, 2014

A-Z Indie Books: Up So Down

Today's featured book is Up So Down by our own Briane Pagel:

When "Bumpy" takes his sister's fiance out for a night on the town, a mysterious drowning crashes through their lives like a wrecking ball into an already-crumbling wall. Sarah mourns her lost lover by halfheartedly joining a group dedicated to proving there is a serial killer on the loose and jealously guarding her dying mother, while "Bumpy" moves to Las Vegas to take up a new career, only to accidentally stumble into his old one.

Through the course of a year that unfolds haphazardly and out-of-sequence, Bumpy and Sarah try to figure out how much of the past they ought to hold on to, and how much of the future is worth looking into.


Comments:  This was nearly as good as The After, my favorite Briane Pagel novel.  I was reminded of Anne Tyler's Breathing Lessons, a novel that followed two pretty ordinary people and yet somehow made even the relatively mundane bits of their lives seem interesting.  Bumpy and Sarah are a little less ordinary than those characters, but they aren't exactly superheroes or mystery-solving physicist-rock guitar players either.  But like that book, what makes this great is how even the relative mundane seems exceptional.

Right now you can get it FREE on Amazon!

4 comments:

  1. I'm partial to this book over the After. This was one of my favs from last year. Even read the deleted scenes.

    Good work, Briane.

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  2. I'm reading this one, right now. Well, sort of right now. April has derailed my "computer reading."

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  3. I can't believe you found a book that started with U. How are you doing on X?
    Thanks for the link to get the book on Amazon--I just did. I won't have time to read it until after the challenge, but I will get to it. I visited Briane's site. Good writer.
    I am your newest A to Z follower, so it's nice to meet you.
    Deb@ http://debioneille.blogspot.com

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  4. I think it was on Robin's blog, Your Daily Dose, but I first learned of B. Pagel. I will have to check into more of his books.
    Deb@ http://debioneille.blogspot.com

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