Panorama (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316551762)

Richard MacMurray, a cable news talking head, is paid handsomely to pontificate on the issues of the moment. On New Year's Day he is scheduled to be a guest on a prominent morning talk show. As he awaits the broadcast, the network interrupts with news that a jet airliner has crashed in Dallas and that everyone aboard has perished.

Within an hour, amateur videotape surfaces of the plane's last moments, transforming the crash into a living image: familiar, constant, and horrifying. Richard learns that his sister, Mary Beth, was aboard the doomed flight, leaving behind her six-year-old son, Gabriel. Richard is the boy's only living relative. When he is given an opportunity to bring Gabriel home, it may be that the loss of his sister will provide him with the second chapter he never knew he wanted.

In this powerful debut, Steve Kistulentz captures the sprawl of contemporary America -- its culture, its values, the workaday existence of its people -- with kaleidoscopic sweep and controlled intensity. Yet within the expansive scope of Panorama lies an intimate portrait of human loss rendered with precision, humanity, and humor.

Author: Steve Kistulentz
ISBN-10: 0316551767
ISBN-13: 9780316551762
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Language: English
Published: 03/06/2018
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.90w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2018
Booklist 02/01/2018 pg. 29
Publishers Weekly 01/29/2018
Library Journal 04/01/2018 pg. 65