

It’s a group dedication that brings together the members of Red Sun. Though the Life Force-the energy that has bound this universe together since its inception-can be different things to different people, what matters is that prayer is a communal act. It isn’t about the how or the who so much as it is about the praying itself. They look out for me, and I pray to them.Īt Red Sun you can pray however you want. They’re up there, three across, and have been ever since their untimely mortal deaths. I see them most nights, shining from the sky. It could be your girlfriend or your favorite basketball player.

See, the Life Force can be almost anything. You don’t actually believe in a Life Force.

Mornings at Red Sun begin with prayer to the Life Force.īullshit, you’re saying. If this is really the end of the world, who do they want to be when they face it? Excerpt With time ticking down to some great unknowable end they’ll each have to make a choice. So begin weeks of pink lightning, bloodred rain, unexplained storms.And a countdown clock appears mysteriously above the town hall. The day Stella and Galliard meet, there is something in the air in their small town. But when he’s denied Red Sun’s resident artist role, which he believed he was destined for, he starts to imagine a life beyond the gates of the compound. There, people accept his tics, his Tourette’s. Galliard has only ever known life inside Red Sun. After Stella’s mom dies by suicide and her brother runs off to Red Sun, the local hippie commune, Stella is forced to bring her dreams down to earth to care for her sister, Jill. Slater, Kansas, is a small town where not much seems to happen. From the author of Tash Hearts Tolstoy comes a funny, moving novel about the lengths we’ll go to make dreams our dreams come true that’s perfect for fans of Shaun David Hutchinson and Rainbow Rowell.
