From Chapter 1November 17, 1989Dear Cardinal Lustiger, Your Eminence:My name is Daniella Stonebrook Blue. I am-or was-by profession anastronomer. We are strangers to each other. Your name was given to me by awoman on a bus as we were traveling across New Mexico. Because of herinsistence, I am writing to you about this dark period of my life. I need to speakto you about the matter of light.Light is the alphabet of God. I knew this when I was born and then I forgot.This is the first time I have understood it as an adult woman. Even as I preparedto write these words, I didn¿t know what they implied until they appeared onthe page.
The reader journeys through these poems, circa 1787 to 2013, and emerges realizing that everything is connected-the ways we live, lie, love, and die-the ways we all get over.
A powerful and gripping allegory of an ordinary man trying to survive in the oppressive Chinese communist regime of the 1970s.
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