And the Dark Sacred Night
By Julia Glass
- Release Date: 2014-04-01
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Description
From the National Book Award–winning author of Three Junes, a "tender, insightful, and winning exploration of the modern family and the infinite number of shapes it can take" (People).
Kit Noonan is an unemployed art historian with twins to support, a mortgage to pay, and a frustrated wife who insists that, to move forward, Kit must first confront a crucial mystery about his past. Born to a single teenage mother, he has never known the identity of his biological father.
Kit’s search begins with his onetime stepfather, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners Vermont outdoorsman, and ultimately leads him to Fenno McLeod, the beloved protagonist of Glass's award-winning novel Three Junes. Immersing readers in a panorama that stretches from Vermont to the tip of Cape Cod, And the Dark Sacred Night is an unforgettable novel about the youthful choices that steer our destinies, the necessity of forgiveness, and the risks we take when we face down the shadows of our past.
Reviews
A snooze
2By RevpdtI've read and enjoyed all Julia Glass' previous books. This is definitely the weakest. I couldn't bring myself to care about any of the characters or what happened to them. That I could put the book down with 10 pages left and go to sleep pretty much says it all.