At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination commences. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And 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 photojournalist, a schoolchild, a missionary, a writer, and a street vendor-inhabit an acutely observed, beautifully familiar yet particularly strange universe, as only Kevin Brockmeier could imagine it:
- ISBN10 0375425314
- ISBN13 9780375425318
- Publish Date 1 February 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 September 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pantheon Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 257
- Language English