Please join the Kol Ami Book Circle on December 11, 2021, at 4pm for a virtual discussion of Alice Hoffman’s novel, Illumination Night. Register here for a zoom link to join Dr. Jane Drucker and David Glickman in a discussion about Hoffman’s book, available in book format, kindle, audio, and at the local LA and Long Beach area libraries.

 

Summary: 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.

 

“Daringly mixing comedy with tragedy...[Hoffman] has created a narrative that somehow makes myth out of the sticky complexities of contemporary marriage…Her characters are branded onto one’s memory.”—The New York Times Book Review