Road Longer Than Memory: Literary Fiction with the Page-Turning Tension of a Psychological Mystery

By Melanie McCabe

Sometimes the road home runs through everything you tried to forget

After a failed relationship and an unsettled teaching career, Sara Barlow returns to her childhood home in Arlington, Virginia, hoping for a fresh start. But when she applies for a job at her old high school, a chance glimpse into the gymnasium shakes her to the core--she spots the man she suspects was involved in a classmate's violent death a decade earlier.

Haunted by the past, Sara confronts the memories she's spent years trying to suppress: her sister Suzanne's fatal car crash, her secret summer with the reckless Devlin Barrie, and the anonymous 911 call she made after witnessing what she believes was a murder. As the construction of Interstate 66 physically fractures her community, Sara grapples with emotional fault lines of her own--guilt, silence, and buried truth.

Set against the backdrop of suburban upheaval in the 1970s and '80s, Road Longer Than Memory is a compelling story of memory, reckoning, and the cost of what we leave unsaid.

Perfect for fans of Tana French and William Kent Krueger

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608096521
• ISBN13: 9781608096527
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
• Length: 384 Pages