Night Came with Many Stars
Simon Van BooyCarol was thirteen when her daddy lost her in a game of cards. One year later--pregnant and with nowhere to go--she is taken in by Bessie & Martha, who run a secret refuge for "lost women." Fifty years on in the same small Kentucky town, Carol's thirteen-year-old grandson rides his BMX & watches wrestling, mesmerized by 1980s excess, while his community fights to stay employed in factories & on farms.
Simon Van Booy has woven the many struggles & small triumphs of three generations of a single Kentucky family into an intimate portrayal of American life that includes the Depression, war, faith, the hardship of women, racial prejudice, & rural disenfranchisement. Van Booy captures the distinctive voices of each generation, time & again revealing the sacred bonds of family and friendship in times of crisis. With stark, poetic clarity, Night Came with Many Stars is a captivating journey through one century that reveals an America rarely seen.
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