The Tunnel

For readers of Liz Moore and Celeste Ng comes a haunting new novel from acclaimed author Sarah Gerard about the unexpected death of a childhood friend, a rumor of murder, and our narrator’s pursuit of the truth . . .

When her closest childhood friend is found dead, our narrator is told it was suicide. But then a rumor spreads: The husband did it. His history of infidelity, mounting debt, and flimsy alibi only fuel the community’s suspicion—and hers.

Months pass. The police move on. She doesn’t.

Digging into her friend’s final days, our narrator uncovers secrets that make her question how well they ever really knew each other—and she is pulled back into her own buried past, spent hopping freight trains as an adolescent to escape a home she couldn’t stay in.

The Tunnel is a moving novel of grief, sisterhood, and the family we choose. It is a propulsive mystery and searching portrait of the people America leaves behind, and of two women reckoning with the ghosts of who they used to be.