Refining and simplifying the original title while retaining its focus on product keywords and without removing the targeted audience information, the revised title is: The Longest Night: A Novel

Advance Praise for The Longest Night:

"Scintillating . . . [Andria] Williams keeps the narrative interest percolating with great period details and by allowing her characters' thoughts and emotions full expression. . . . A smoldering, altogether impressive debut that probes the social and emotional strains on military families in a fresh and insightful way." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"[A] luminous debut . . . Williams expertly builds tension between Paul and Nat as the story progresses towards the inevitable nuclear tragedy in this utterly absorbing and richly rewarding novel." —Booklist (starred review)

"In The Longest Night, Andria Williams demonstrates her masterly understanding of the painfully gorgeous intimacies of the human condition. The author's thrilling story line will keep you turning the pages, while her ability to inject a sharp dose of hope, fear, and desire into the most innocent of scenes will take you captive. I loved it." —David R. Gillham, author of City of Women

"Andria Williams writes about the challenges and struggles faced by military families in a wholly original way. As a military spouse, Williams brings every nuance of this world to life, but it's her brimming talent and startling insight into the fragility and tenacity of marriage that kept me glued to the page." —Siobhan Fallon, author of You Know When the Men Are Gone

"Engrossing, witty, dynamic, and beautifully written, The Longest Night is a literary thrill ride. Andria Williams's characters—particularly the 1960s military wives—are portrayed with extraordinary intimacy. This is a lovely, harrowing, and original novel. You will want to read it in a single night." —Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Members

"Andria Williams's wonderful debut novel is a sobering yet inspiring portrait of human nature, with precisely rendered details about the early years of the nuclear power era. With exceptional characterization, serious content, graceful structure, and a storyline as gripping as a psychological thriller, The Longest Night is both unforgettable and impossible to put down." —Frederick Reiken, author of Day for Night

"There is a kind of story about the American West that you think you know, and this book destabilizes it. Williams creates characters who challenge the protocols of the time, and are irradiated by the results. This is the West I want to read about, where landscape shapes and dislocates, where one falls and is found again. In prose as compassionate as it is compelling, Williams honors the lives of her characters, and shines in this striking debut." —Nina McConigley, author of Cowboys and East Indians

"In The Longest Night, Andria Williams brilliantly balances high-wire tension with heart-crushing empathy for her cast of seeking, flawed, beautifully complex characters. This debut novel effortlessly evokes the mores and signposts of an earlier era, and brings to life characters whose loneliness, longing, and dignity are rendered with an indelible vividness that transcends time. It's a hard book to put down, and an even harder one to stop thinking about." —Suzanne Rivecca, author of Death Is Not an Option

"A family drama set at the dawn of the 1960s, The Longest Night is a smart, emotionally resonant novel that combines domestic anxiety with nuclear terror. Andria Williams writes as powerfully about the potential breakdown of a marriage as she does about the meltdown of a reactor, all while evoking the atmosphere and particulars of a time when the madmen who ran America from the sidelines might have ended us not with a whimper but a bang." —Aaron Gwyn, author of Wynne's War

"In The Longest Night, unspoken longings within a marriage trigger an emotional explosion just as intense as the nuclear accident at the novel's core. Andria Williams's debut is an intimately detailed portrait of love, trust, and guilt in a town—and an era—clouded with secrets." —Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You

"The Longest Night is a smart and compassionate novel that offers as many fresh insights into marriage and intimacy as it does about American nuclear history. Andria Williams is a terrific writer—clear-eyed and empathetic—and this is a fantastic debut." —Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans

"It's hard to believe The Longest Night is Andria Williams's debut novel. Her command of language, character and plot—the three essential ingredients for a riveting read—is extraordinary. The Longest Night is about the fragility of a marriage, a Cold War nuclear accident on the plains of Idaho, and the stresses on a military family during deployment, and it takes on each of those things with all the robust storytelling energy of the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century. This is the book I will be pressing into my friends' hands this year when they ask me what they should be reading." —David Abrams, author of Fobbit

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