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"In this extraordinary novel, Castleberry brilliantly hopscotches from person to person, from era to era,while somehow making all this fancy footwork look effortless and essential." - Jenny Offill, author of Department of Speculation and Weather A luminous debut novel in the tradition of DeLillo and Egan, chronicling the eerily intersecting lives of a series of American dreamers whose unforeseen links reveal the divided heart of a haunted nationand the battered grace that might lead to its salvation June 26, 1947. Headlines across America report the sighting of nine pulsating lights flying over the Cascade Mountains at speeds surpassing any aircraft. In Chicago, inspired by the news, Oliver Danville, a failed actor now reduced to a mediocre pool hustler, hitchhikes west in a fever-dream quest for a possible sign from above that might illuminate his true calling. A chance encounter with Saul Penrod, an Idaho farmer, and his family sets in motion the birth of the Seekersa collective of outcasts, interlopers, and idealists devoted to creating a society where divisions of race, ethnicity, and sexuality are a thing of the past. When Claudette Donen, a waitress on the lam from her suf

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Author

Castleberry, Brian, author

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062984395

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.6 / 5 (53 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14