It gleamed up at her like a small golden egg encrusted with jewels of lapis lazuli, carnelian, and jasper. The classic eye, one of the most ancient symbols of protection. Natalie Landau, a museum curator with an expertise in Mesopotamian protective amulets and magical beliefs, has received a puzz
The Illumination
โ Scribed by Brockmeier, Kevin
- Book ID
- 106781532
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 234 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
**From best-selling and award-winning author Kevin Brock ยญmeier: a new novel of stunning artistry and imagination about the wounds we all bear and the light that radiates from us all. **
What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? In the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a private journal of love notes written by a husband to his wife passes into the keeping of a hospital patient, and from there through the hands of five other suffering people, touching each of them uniquely. I love the soft blue veins on your wrist. I love your lopsided smile. I love watching TV and shelling sunflower seeds with you.
The six recipients--a data analyst, a photojourยญnalist, a schoolchild, a missionary, a writer, and a street vendor--inhabit an acutely observed, beautiยญfully familiar yet particularly strange universe, as only Kevin Brockmeier could imagine it: a world in which human pain is expressed as illumination, so that one's wounds glitter,...
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