Something strange is going on.
All over the world, pain is manifesting itself as light. Cuts and bruises blaze and flash. Arthritic joints glow. Injured troops emit radiant white shards into the desert night. On the news, they're calling it 'The Illumination'.
As this breathtaking phenomenon takes holds, a private journal of love notes passes into the keeping of Carol Ann Page, a lonely hospital patient, and from there through the hands of five other people. Each of them will find their lives changed forever in this masterful novel of human warmth and sheer invention - a story which spans decades and continents, telescopes from the global to the most intimate scale, and shines a spectacular light on the wounds we all bear.
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"Lush. . . . At once dark and profound. . . . [The Illumination] never fails to be deeply felt and precisely observed." --The New York Times Book Review
"A beautiful novel. . . . Brockmeier is a dazzling stylist." --The Washington Post Book World "Stunningly original . . . this gorgeously written book will still stay with [readers] long after the last page is turned." --The Oregonian "Show[s] us the astonishment of life as it is really being lived." --The Boston Globe "Moving. . . . Skillfully explores the relationship between love and memory." --The New Yorker "The depth of [Brockmeier's] scrutiny makes his fiction glow." --The Plain Dealer "Brockmeier's characters are wonderful, and his images are dazzling." --Detroit Free Press "The Illumination imagines a real universe of pain and pleasure, connection and disconnection, and quest for meaning that defines human experience delightfully anew." --The Miami Herald"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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