The Return

There are stories that unfold like banners in the wind—bright, declarative, and easily forgotten—and there are others that emerge like buried relics, drawn slowly from the earth, heavy with meaning and the quiet gravity of human longing. The Return belongs unmistakably to the latter kind. It is not merely an adventure cast among the immensities of space, but a meditation upon distance itself: distance not only measured in miles and years, but in memory, in allegiance, and in the fragile arc...