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The Glint Of Light
Mark Smith, is a sensitive thirty-seven-year-old environmental scientist of mixed race. He tries to come to terms with his mother’s painful death as he goes through the stages of grief. Mark is also reassessing his relationship with his gay twin sister, Maria, a lawyer. After several failed relationships with women in college, Mark, while at his mother’s funeral in Chicago, reconnects with his high school girlfriend, Christy, an artist who paints only self-portraits. He now believes he has finally found true and lasting love, but trouble is brewing.
Pulling focus on the cumulative unease and random violence that has gripped American life in recent years, The Glint of Light proves why Clarence eMajor is one of America’s most beloved novelists.
Praise
“A brilliant and wonderful novel… The mysteries of love and betrayal, unexpected violence, and abrupt encounters with racism give hypnotic immediacy to every moment of this beautiful narrative.”
—The Chicago Quarterly Review
From the NEW YORKER: The Glint of Light, by Clarence Major (At Bay Press). This naturalistic novel follows a Black environmental scientist who returns home to Chicago from California for his mother’s funeral and, while there, revives a romance with his white high-school girlfriend. The story is shaped by several cataclysmic events, which suit the novel’s backdrop, in which the Presidency of Barack Obama—the pride of the scientist’s late mother—corresponds with a rise in white nationalism. Though the climate crisis and racially charged incidents routinely oblige the scientist to acknowledge his vulnerability, he is inclined to attribute an impartial agency to death: “Class didn’t matter, age didn’t matter; it came at you with an absolute and indifferent force.”