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Walk the Darkness Down

by Daniel Magariel
Amelia Sciandra
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A stunning novel "with sentences like burning flags" (Annie Proulx) about a couple trying to rebuild their lives in their deteriorating coastal town. Up all night, Marlene drives the highways and back roads near her home in hopes that some landmark will spark an image of her daughter, one untainted by years of grief. Her husband Les steams out to sea in his effort to cope. He is a commercial fisherman on a boat staffed up with desperate loners and shape-shifting friends obliterating their bodies in two-week shifts of crushing labor. The couple keep their pain hidden from each other, and most of their lives separate. But as Les comes under threat on the trawler and Marlene's drives lead her into a tangled friendship with a local sex worker whom she becomes determined to protect, the couple is forced to acknowledge that they can no longer face their troubles alone. A powerful descent into an ink-black whirlpool of obsession and isolation on the turbulent eastern seaboard, Walk the Darkness Down is an unflinching portrayal of love in the margins of twenty-first century America. It is a fierce, beautiful testimonial to a couple's struggle to survive both the past and the present, and to chart a new path into the future.

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  • Release date

    August 1, 2023

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781639731350
      • File size: 186756 KB
      • Duration: 06:29:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 26, 2023
      In the moody latest from Magariel (after One of the Boys), married couple Les and Marlene, who live in a Northeastern seaside village they call Neverland, have grown apart after the accidental death of their daughter, Angie, years earlier. Les, a commercial fisherman, spends his nights in his boat, trawling dangerous waters with his crew and working himself ragged to deal with his pain. The boat’s band of outcasts includes JW—so-called because he has a John Wayne quote for every situation—along with Monk, Booby, and Hoover. Like Les, they’re all on the run from one trauma or another. Meanwhile, Marlene drives through the rundown district called the Villas by night, which is where she meets and comes to care for Josie, a homesick sex worker in thrall to a cunning man named Bill. With Josie acting as a buffer, Les and Marlene learn to function like a family again and come to terms with the loss of Angie. After Les has a close call at sea and Marlene confronts Bill, they reconsider their future together. Magariel effectively portrays Neverland as a wild place populated by lost souls, stripped in his words of “the illusion that the world has been conquered, charted, angled for human need.” Downbeat and atmospheric, this psychological drama gets the job done. Agent: Bill Clegg, Clegg Agency.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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