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The Radiant Dark
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ISBN10: 1638932522
ISBN13: 9781638932529
Publisher: Sjp Lit
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.43 Width: 6.07 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781638932529
Publisher: Sjp Lit
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.43 Width: 6.07 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER - A People Best Book of the Month - An Apple Best Book of the Month Beautifully written and full of wonder and humanity. -- People
Just as engrossing as the mysteries swirling in outer space.--The New York Times Book Review In the wake of First Contact, one mother upends her life and her children's futures, as humanity reckons with its place in the universe. It's March 1980, and Carol Girard and her husband are living an ordinary life in a small town in the Adirondacks. They have just had their first child, and though Carol is struggling with the challenges of new motherhood, her future seems clear. Until something extraordinary happens: an inexplicable flickering of light in the sky, which is ultimately determined to be communication from intelligent life on another planet. But these beings are eleven light-years away, and nothing is known about them other than the fact that they seem to know we exist, too. As humanity reels from a shifting understanding of its place in the universe, we follow the stories of the Girard family: Carol, whose fascination with this other life sparks a desperate search for spiritual meaning; Michael, her loyal son, who finds solace not in the stars above his head but in the ground beneath his feet; and Ro, Carol's bright and ambitious daughter, whose childhood goal to work in interstellar communication will evolve into something far grander. Tracing five decades of love, loss, ambition, and self-discovery, The Radiant Dark is Daring and expansive, soul-stirring, and precise, this is a novel about love and belonging. (Eliana Ramage, author of To the Moon and Back).
Just as engrossing as the mysteries swirling in outer space.--The New York Times Book Review In the wake of First Contact, one mother upends her life and her children's futures, as humanity reckons with its place in the universe. It's March 1980, and Carol Girard and her husband are living an ordinary life in a small town in the Adirondacks. They have just had their first child, and though Carol is struggling with the challenges of new motherhood, her future seems clear. Until something extraordinary happens: an inexplicable flickering of light in the sky, which is ultimately determined to be communication from intelligent life on another planet. But these beings are eleven light-years away, and nothing is known about them other than the fact that they seem to know we exist, too. As humanity reels from a shifting understanding of its place in the universe, we follow the stories of the Girard family: Carol, whose fascination with this other life sparks a desperate search for spiritual meaning; Michael, her loyal son, who finds solace not in the stars above his head but in the ground beneath his feet; and Ro, Carol's bright and ambitious daughter, whose childhood goal to work in interstellar communication will evolve into something far grander. Tracing five decades of love, loss, ambition, and self-discovery, The Radiant Dark is Daring and expansive, soul-stirring, and precise, this is a novel about love and belonging. (Eliana Ramage, author of To the Moon and Back).
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