JOSH RITTER - Bright's Passage

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Adult Event

Start: 10/05/2011 7:00 pm

BookPeople is pleased to present
singer & songwriter
JOSH RITTER
speaking and signing his debut novel,
Bright's Passage.

In our July Top Shelf, BookPerson Chris H. said of Bright's Passage, "It has the feel of an old southern fable, a story told around a campfire in the night. There’s something powerful in that simplicity, something confident in its telling." This novel has indeed had a powerful impact on our staff. It's topped our list of recommended books this summer, and now we're thrilled to welcome Josh Ritter to BookPeople to discuss this beautiful first novel.

In Bright's Passage, Henry Bright is newly returned to West Virginia from the battlefields of the First World War. Grief struck by the death of his young wife and unsure of how to care for the infant son she left behind, Bright is soon confronted by the destruction of the only home he’s ever known. His only hope for safety is the angel who has followed him to Appalachia from the trenches of France and who now promises to protect him and his son. Together, Bright and his newborn, along with a cantankerous goat and the angel guiding them, make their way through a landscape ravaged by forest fire toward an uncertain salvation, haunted by the abiding nightmare of his experiences in the war and shadowed by his dead wife’s father, the Colonel, and his two brutal sons.

Josh Ritter is a songwriter from Moscow, Idaho. His albums include The Animal Years and So Runs the World Away.

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