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Mon Apr 26, 2021 2:30pm Favorite This There’s a certain thrill that comes from reading a contemporary novel that draws inspiration from an older story or stories. That this could be used as a description for works ranging from Margo Lanagan’s visceral Tender Morsels to Nalo Hopkinson’s interstellar Midnight Robber gives a sense of what’s possible when alluding to older stories and when creating works that spark a dialogue with their predecessors. It’s in this tradition that Rena Rossner wrote The Light of the Midnight Stars. In an author’s note at the back of the novel, Rossner explains the disparate sources that informed her book, including a Romainian fairy tale and the history of the founding of Wallachia. Reading her thoughts on them, it’s easy to see what drew Rossner to these stories: they’re complex, metaphorically rich, and transportive in unexpected ways. But reading Rossner’s explanation of her book’s thematic origins also h ....
The Light Of The Midnight Stars Doesn t Shine Brightly Enough by Jessica P. Wick Redhook The Light of the Midnight Stars has a dreamy quality which makes me think it best read with the curtains drawn and a candle lit, surrounded by comforting objects of home. Rena Rossner s second novel invites us to examine what home is, when hatred and the threat of being displaced is a constant. How to keep the fire of Home kindled when you are scattered and your traditions what makes home feel like home, your life feel like your life might draw evil attention? How to survive suffering? ....
Redhook The Light of the Midnight Stars has a dreamy quality which makes me think it best read with the curtains drawn and a candle lit, surrounded by comforting objects of home. Rena Rossner s second novel invites us to examine what home is, when hatred and the threat of being displaced is a constant. How to keep the fire of Home kindled when you are scattered and your traditions what makes home feel like home, your life feel like your life might draw evil attention? How to survive suffering? Rossner brings together Jewish, Romanian, and Hungarian folklore and infuses the woods and countries of 14th century Eastern Europe with secret magics. Rabbi Isaac and his three daughters are descendants of King Solomon and can work miracles. There is Sarah, the oldest, who can heal and make plants grow; Hannah, dissatisfied, vital, with the power to control fire; Levana, the youngest, a dreamy stargazer who reads doom in the skies. A black mist falls across Hung ....
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