Man in the Dark
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident. Plagued by insomnia, he tries to push back thoughts of things he would prefer to forget – his wife’s recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter’s boyfriend, Titus – by telling himself stories. He imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself.
In this other America the twin towers did not fall, and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union, and a bloody civil war ensued. Brill gradually opens up to his granddaughter, recounting the story of his marriage and confronting the grim reality of Titus’s death.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
Old age, sorrow and physical pain become the triggers of a story inside the story that ends as abruptly as is begins and leaves the characters telling their own painful stories of love desertion and forgiveness.