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  • Published: 1 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9780307456113
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $38.00
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And the Dark Sacred Night

A Novel




The National Book Award-winning author on her best subject--family secrets: here is the story of a man searching for his father, upending relationships beyond his own and forever changing the way he fits into the world he thought he knew so well.

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.

  • Published: 1 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9780307456113
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $38.00
Categories:

About the author

Julia Glass

JULIA GLASS is the author of six previous books of fiction, including the best-selling Three Junes, winner of the National Book Award, and I See You Everywhere, winner of the Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Other published works include the Kindle Single Chairs in the Rafters and essays in several anthologies. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Glass is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emerson College. She lives with her family in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

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Praise for And the Dark Sacred Night

  • "Fully enjoyable.... This memento mori is as much about the teeming, glad business of life as it is about grief --'the bright blessed day,' as the Louis Armstrong song puts it, as well as the dark sacred night." --The Washington Post
  • "Sophisticated and surprising.... And the Dark Sacred Night is a quiet novel the way a modest rope of pearls represents the urgent efforts of two dozen oysters.... Takes on the qualities of a thriller.... So deft and economical that even a parade of disappointed lives feels luminous." --San Francisco Chronicle
  • "The only regret you'll have at the end of this particular story is that it's over." --Entertainment Weekly
  • "An engrossing read." --Newsday