AND THE DARK SACRED NIGHT

The award-winning author on her best subject -- family secrets -- in the story of a middle-aged man who searches for his father, upending relationships beyond his own and changing forever the way he fits into the world he thought he knew so well.

Kit Noonan's life is stalled. An unemployed art historian with twins to support and a mortgage to pay, he is sent away by his frustrated wife, who is certain that, to go forward, Kit must first go back; he must solve the mystery of his father's identity--which his mother has persistently withheld. Kit begins with a visit to his onetime stepfather, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners Vermont outdoorsman who may know the answer. There is, however, another person who has kept the secret: Lucinda Burns, wife of a revered senior statesman and mother of Malachy, the journalist who died of AIDS in Glass's first novel, Three Junes. She and her husband are the only ones who know the full story of how their son got into trouble as a teenage prodigy at an elite music camp, resulting in an accident of fate whose repercussions spread even further when Jasper introduces her to Kit. Immersing readers in a New England panorama that stretches from Vermont in a blizzard to Provincetown during Carnival Week, Glass weaves together the lives of Kit, Jasper, Lucinda and, ultimately, Fenno McLeod, the beloved protagonist of Three Junes (now in his sixties). An unforgettable novel about the youthful choices that steer our destinies, the necessity of forgiveness, and the surprisingly mutable meaning of family. The author picks up various strands from her first four novels, especially her debut, National-Book-Award-winning THREE JUNES. By the bestselling and National Book Award winning author of THREE JUNES, THE WHOLE WORLD OVER, I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE and THE WIDOWER’S TALE.