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WE ARE THE LIGHT

Matthew Quick

An epistolary novel about a man who has been hailed a small-town hero in the wake of a devastating tragedy and his struggle to help heal a broken community while grieving the loss of his wife, who he insists visits him every night in the form of an angel.

Lucas Goodgame lives in a small town in Pennsylvania, a community that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy at the local movie house. Everyone in town sees Lucas as a heroeveryone, that is, except Lucas himself. Lucas spends his time writing letters to his former Jungian analyst Karl, and he insists that his deceased wife Darcy visits him every night in the form of an angel. It is only when 18-year-old Eli, a young man who the community has ostracized, begins camping out in Lucas's backyard that an unlikely alliance forms and the two begin a journey to heal their neighbors and, most importantly, themselves.

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Book Published 2022-11-01 by Avid Reader (Simon & Schuster)

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Timely. Relevant. Ripped from the headlines. Matthew Quick's new novel, We Are the Light, is all the above ... It's been five years since Quick's last book, but his skill at crafting an engaging narrative around trauma is as strong as ever. When you read Quick, you don't feel guilty if your tears are mixed with laughter. -- The Washington Post

Matthew Quick's We Are the Light is a treasure of a novel --wise, humane, and deeply moving. Whoever you are, whatever trials you've faced in life, read it and be healed. --Justin Cronin , author of The Passage trilogy

We Are the Light is a beautifully written and emotion-packed novel with a huge heart. Matthew Quick takes us on a searing and unforgettable journey through grief and empathy and how even the most broken of us can be repaired. --Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Win

An illuminating epistolary novel . . . A crackling narrative builds to an excruciatingly honest disclosure. The author's fans will love this. Read more...

Filled with everyday guardian angels, this bittersweet, redemptive meditation on rebuilding after the unthinkable reminds readers that beauty can be found even among shattered pieces. We Are the Light is a perfect read for anyone in need of an insightful, optimistic view of humanity's capacity for compassion and growth.

A timely, lovely and sometimes heartbreaking novel of grief and hope, beautifully told through a series of letters that shine light on our capacity to heal, even after tragedy. --Mitch Albom, New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger in the Lifeboat

Korean: Changbi; Russian: Gayatri;

Matthew Quick has always been a brilliant chronicler of the ways in which we get broken, and the spectacular ways our lives can fall apart, and yet his greatest gift is the way he tries to find, within every story, an opportunity to put some of those pieces back together. In We Are the Light, where unexpected connections offer a way forward, Quick writes with such honesty and openhearted understanding of the pain and joy of being alive. --Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here

Matthew Quick is one of the few fiction writers who, inspired by Jungian insights, makes a solid contribution to the impact of analysis. Like all significant works of art that reflect truths we might have known, had we not lost our way, We Are the Light is subtle and intimate, compellingly strange and hauntingly familiar, an initiation into the depths of suffering and love. It will not only break your heart - it will break it free. Joseph R. Lee, Jungian analyst and cohost of This Jungian Life podcast

We Are the Light is the book America needs right now. A novel that embraces our national heartbreak and division with love and compassion. Matthew Quick is the patron saint of the damaged and outcast and no one writes with more heart and empathy. You'll love this book. Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs and Godspeed

We Are the Light is a testament to the broken and the rebuilt Quick's deeply moving epistolary novel is a balm. --Booklist, Starred Review

A story of unexpected twists and turns on the road to recovery after a shattering tragedy When it comes to facing tragedy and trauma, Quick's novel shows us that it definitely takes a village to heal and move on.