As a successor to the National Book Award-winning Three Junes, Julia Glass's And the Dark Sacred Night is just good enough.
by Aimee Levitt
As a mystery, Julia Glass's fifth novel, And the Dark Sacred Night, fails completely. The plot ostensibly concerns the quest of Kit Noonan—fortysomething, depressed, directionless—to learn about his birth father, whom his mother has always refused to discuss, in the hope that resolving the past will help him move ahead into the future.…[ Read more ]