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AChicago Review of BooksMost Anticipated Fiction Book of 2018ANew York PostandEntertainment WeeklyMust-Read Book\"Fast-paced, energetic, searing. There are moments in Steve Kistulentz'sPanoramathat will take your breath away.\" -Daniel Alarcón, author ofLost City RadioRichard 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 ofPanoramalies an intimate portrait of human loss rendered with precision, humanity, and humor. | Panorama by Steve Kistulentz, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters