Illumination Night Audiobook

Beginning on the night of the Grand Illumination, a festival of lanterns held each summer on Martha’s Vineyard, this novel is a modern chronicle of a marriage and a bittersweet exploration of an extraordinary passion. Illumination Night follows the lives of a young blond giant who is as beautiful as he is frightening; an old woman at the end of her life whose last mission is to save her granddaughter’s soul; a family torn apart by a wife’s fears and a husband’s unrealized desires; and the high school girl who comes to Martha’s Vineyard against her will, who steals husbands and cars, and who will bring everyone together in a web of yearning, sin, and ultimate redemption. Both riveting and reflective, this is a story that brings to light the talent that has made Alice Hoffman an acclaimed bestselling author.

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“Alice Hoffman…has enough power ofempathy to make her characters matter to us. Daringly mixing comedy withtragedy, and the quotidian with the fabulous, she has created a narrative thatsomehow makes myth out of the sticky complexities of contemporary marriage…Ms. Hoffman writes so simply about humanpassions that her characters are branded onto one’s memory. At their mostpassionate they hurl themselves down staircases, out of windows, in front ofspeeding cars. One awakens from the dream of this novel with a memory of tryingto catch them. In the light of the story’s afterglow, one keeps on trying tocatch them.”

— New York Times