Night Came With Many Stars, Simon Van Booy
Night Came With Many Stars, Simon Van Booy
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Night Came With Many Stars

Author: Simon Van Booy

Narrator: Courtney Patterson

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/08/2021

Categories: Fiction, Sagas, Family Life


Synopsis

In Kentucky, back in 1933, Carol's daddy lost his thirteen-year-old daughter in a game of cards. Award-winning author Simon Van Booy's spellbinding novel spans decades as he tells the story of Carol and the people in her life. Incidents intersect and lives unexpectedly change course in this masterfully interwoven story of chance and choice that leads home again to a night blessed with light.

"What you give in this world," an old man tells his grandson, "will be given back to you." Those words illuminate the actions within this unforgettable novel and its connected characters. A young man survives two nearly fatal accidents. A black family saves an orphaned white boy. A pregnant teenager is rescued by the side of the road. An autistic teenager is given his first job. Each incident grows in meaning and power over many decades as we see connections sometimes felt but not always apparent to the people themselves. "Everything was moving," observes Samuel (Carol's grandson) in the Kentucky woods. "An invisible force that was everywhere, and made everything touch."

Told by a master storyteller, Night Came with Many Stars is a rare novel that reveals how wondrous, mysterious, and magically connected life can be—the light Simon Van Booy creates in this novel illuminates our own lives.

About Simon Van Booy

Simon Van Booy has written over a dozen works of fiction (including Night Came with Many Stars) and is the editor of three volumes of philosophy. His books have been translated into many languages. He grew up in rural Wales but currently lives in New York City, where he works as an author, an editor, and an emergency medic at the Ridgewood Volunteer Ambulance Corps.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela M on May 30, 2021

When I first read Simon Van Booy about five years ago I knew then that I wanted to read all of the books that’s he’s written. Since then I’ve read five. Well, almost five. I couldn’t finish one of his story collections that I picked up recently, because the stories were just so sad. BUT, the bottom......more

Goodreads review by Karen on June 30, 2021

Rural Kentucky A family is followed through nearly a century in dual timelines. 1933… Carol, 13 yrs old was wagered and lost by her father in a poker game to a man who raped and impregnated her. She manages to run away and ends up at a house ran by a couple older women and she lives there for several......more