Night Sky, The

The Night Sky is a moving novel about the solitary moral courage of a women raising a child alone and the complex resilience of family. Ivy Slovak is a jewelry designer and artist whose days are absorbed by the struggle to make an unreliable paycheck cover the needs of her infant son. Hungry for the freedom of the world outside her window, Ivy is haunted by the memory of her mother, who abandoned her when she was seven years old. She recalls the years spent with her loving but itinerant father, wandering the desert, hoping somehow to find the troubled, beautiful woman who had left them both. With quiet eloquence and deep compassion, The Night Sky establishes Morris as one of contemporary American literature's foremost chroniclers of the secrets and strengths of the human spirit.

(Christopher Tilghman, Los Angeles Times Book Review) - Christopher Tilghman

Marvelous, spiritually charged fiction, an example of the contemporary American novel at its best.

Mary Morris is the author of the novels House Arrest, Crossroads, and The Waiting Room; two travel memoirs, Nothing to Declare and Wall to Wall; and the award-winning story collections Vanishing Animals and Other Stories and The Bus of Dreams. Her most recent story collection is The Lifeguard. She teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.