Reading Skywards – Your Friendly Bookshelf

INFORMATION ABOUT THIS BOOK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lake Union Publishing
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 1, 2024
Format:  Hardcover, Paperback, audiobook, and ebook
Print length ‏ : ‎ 308 pages
Genre:  Women's Literary - Dystopian Science Fiction 

MY PERSONAL OPINION OF “THIS IMPOSSIBLE BRIGHTNESS”

I got the book with the Prime Kindle Subscription and this was a very different book from what I have been reading lately, and truly enjoyed the writing of the author, and how delicate, sensitive, powerful, loving, and isolated it felt while reading this book. The book’s main character is Alma, who is dedicated to her loneliness with absolute resolute. Her life consists of only her and her dog Jupiter and the devastating loss of her love, Alex.

Through her mourning of the loss of love, in a world that is perishing, is her powerful discovery of friendship and family, while holding up to faith and hope, which made me feel connected to the character and the story until the very end.

PREMISE OF THE BOOK AS FOUND IN AMAZON / GOODREADS:

After the mysterious disappearance of her fiancé, Alma Hughes moves to a remote island in the North Atlantic, where she hopes to weather her grief and nurture her ailing dog. But the strange town of Violette has mysteries as well.

Townsfolk say that the radio tower overlooking their town broadcasts messages through their home appliances, their dreams, even the sea itself. When lightning strikes the tower, illuminating the sky in a brilliant flash, Alma finds herself caught in the unexplainable aftermath of one of Violette’s deadliest storms.

As the sea consumes the island, threatening its very existence, the deaths and lost memories of the recently departed also devastate the community. Alma, with a unique link to the lost, may be the only one who can help them move on. But to do so, she must confront a tragic loss of her own.

On this doomed island haunted by echoes of the departed, Alma searches for meaning in her future—and dares to discover the power of hope among the living.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jessica Bryant Klagmann grew up in New England, studied writing in Fairbanks, Alaska, and now lives with her family in northern New Mexico.

Bibliography:

• This Impossible Brightness is her debut novel.