Luminous Body, Glittering Ash

"I was falling in love with the world, and everything in the world was dying," writes C.W. Emerson in Luminous Body, Glittering Ash. A reader will be drawn in by the narrator's compelling voice in this lyric narrative that captures a moment in history when a man caretakes the lives of those dearest to him, even in the midst of a pandemic, and though he might hope to save them all, it is not within his hands to hold them.

-Sandra Alcosser, author of A Fish to Feed All Hunger and Except by Nat...