~Everyone has a family, and every family has a history, intertwined with destiny that sets the star-crossed course of people's lives. Richard Neil's All the Livelong Day is a vividly personal, unrelenting cinematic account of a spectacular and tragic train collision in Alabama in 1951 for which Neil's father literally occupied a front-row seat. 

Neil's book is meticulously researched with historian exactitude. He turns his father's train, Second 47, into a veritable time machine and tells his story with heart and a novelist's eye of nuance and detail that bring his characters into full view. 

But Neil's signal accomplishment is the verve of his storytelling. He does the near-impossible. He tells you what is going to happen, and then proceeds to slay the reader with suspense anyway. Hitchcock himself would have no choice but tip his hat~

Dennis Love is an author and former journalist whose books include My City Was Gone, an investigative memoir of the tragic environmental history of his Alabama hometown. He lives in Sacramento, Californiia~

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