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Lou
Berney

Lou Berney is the author of four previous novels, Gunshot Straight, Whiplash River, November Road, and multiple prize-winning The Long and Faraway Gone. November Road was awarded the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as the New Yorker, Ploughshares, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Lou Berney is the author of four previous novels, Gunshot Straight, Whiplash River, November Road, and multiple prize-winning The Long and Faraway Gone. November Road was awarded the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as the New Yorker, Ploughshares, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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