NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2024 DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S EMERGING WRITERS One of Indigos Top 10 Literary Fiction Books of 2024 and Top 100 Books of 2024
A singular stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genreat once a bold retelling of biblical tales and an unforgettable contemporary comingofage story connected in collapsing time across millennia
There are few love stories in the holy books Love is what ruins Love is what costs Love is a flaming sword at our backs a garden left to ruin and to wild
In Dayspring Anthony Oliveira brings to vibrant glorious life the gospel according to the disciple Christ lovedhis companion in the days before the crucifixion the only instrument that remembers with fidelity his sound
Sacred profane and rich with explicit desire and a poetic attention to form Dayspring weaves electric and heartwrenching stories of passion grief destruction and survival into a narrative unmoored in space and time one that reexamines and reframes great and doomed figures from scripture and history even as it casts its keen eye on the trials of modern life
Seamlessly blending fiction memoir and verse in the exhilarating tradition of Anne Carson and Madeline Miller Dayspring is an immersive mesmerizing work one that wrenches beauty from cataclysm and finds bliss in apocalypse
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