The Light of the Sun, sequel for Where the Sky Meets the Earth, is a commercial literary novel exploring family collapse and social breakdown in America. The story is set in 2019, ten years after the timeframe of Where the Sky Meets the Earth, and is told from four points of view across two timelines. In the primary timeline, Levi, the twenty-four year old mixed-race young man who, ten years previously, had run away to find a savior in Sylas, and Ava, Sylas’s twenty-six year old daughter out-of-wedlock, encounter racist Joe, whose hatred of “others” is a foil to the compassion and self-sacrifice of Sylas. The secondary timeline draws the reader into the past—a personal journal of the enigmatic holy man, Sylas Dyer, revealing the events that forged him into the man, considered by some, to be the second coming of Christ. Sylas’s poignant narrative of lost love is reminiscent of the tragic love story in Dr. Zhivago.
The title, The Light of the Sun, comes via a quote from a French author:
If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
--Romain Rolland
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