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Author: Kevin Brockmeier
Number of Pages: 272 pages
Published Date: 17 Mar 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780224093378
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At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination commences. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a private journal of love notes, written by a husband to his wife, passes into the keeping of a hospital patient and from there through the hands of five other suffering people, touching each of them uniquely. I love the soft blue veins on your wrist. I love your lopsided smile. I love watching TV and shelling sunflower seeds with you. The six recipients-a data analyst, a photojournalist, a schoolchild, a missionary, a writer, and a street vendor-inhabit an acutely observed, beautifully familiar yet particularly strange universe, as only Kevin Brockmeier could imagine it