Skylighting

Skylighting
A novel of grief, drift, and the slow return to feeling

When he lost his wife, he lost himself too.

Grief has set him adrift buoyed only by fragments of memory and the wreckage of a life he no longer recognizes. He has traded New York City for a low-rent stretch of Florida coastline, and for a year he stops steering. He lets chance decide where he goes, who he meets, what happens next. Longing feels like betrayal. Love feels like forgetting. So he chooses neither.

But drift has its own gravity. In the glare of Florida sun and the strange company of strangers, something in him starts to loosen, not healing, exactly, but the first faint outline of it.

Skylighting is a lyrical, unflinching meditation on loss, identity, and the reluctant pull toward renewal, a Reading Group Choices selection praised for its lucid prose and its unsentimental honesty about what grief actually does to a life.

Praise for Skylighting

"a portrait of grief and disconnection that sheds light on life's most important questions" Kelly Magee, author of A Guide to Strange Places

"an astute, surprising journey" Erica Wright, author of Hollow Bones

"should be widely read and loudly admired" John Mauk, author of Field Notes for the Earthbound