Julia Glass's novel And The Dark Sacred Night, touches on some of the same characters that were in her book Three Junes, which won the National Book Award. Both books are family sagas, and we get to know, and care about the people in these families.
Kit Noonan is an unemployed art historian with twins to help support and a mortgage to pay. Raised by a strong-willed, secretive single mother, Kit has never known the identity of his father--a mystery that his wife insists he must solve to move forward with his life. Out of desperation, Kit goes to the mountain retreat of his mother's former husband, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners outdoorsman. There, in the midst of a fierce blizzard, Kit and Jasper confront memories of the bittersweet decade when their families were joined. A lovely read. ML
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