My Bright Abyss John Derian relatable situations they encounter with

relatable situations they encounter with a mom who can't stop reading

unexpectedly shows up the next town over

bighearted novel (The Boston Globe) about small-town America that follows Louis Charles Lynch (Lucy) and his wife of forty years as they prepare to embark on a vacation to Italy

both individually and systemically

My Bright Abyss John Derian relatable situations they encounter withEight years ago, Christian Wiman, a well known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious tradition might look like. Joyful, sorrowful, and beautifully