We Burned So Bright
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- HUF4,490.00
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- HUF4,490.00
Publisher Description
A LibraryReads pick! An Indie Next pick!
A heart-wrenching standalone novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, We Burned So Bright follows an elder gay couple on an end-of-the-world road-trip.
The road stretched out before them. No other cars, just the headlights on the blacktop. Above, the cracked moon in a kaleidoscope sky….
Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good long life. Together they’ve experienced the highest highs of love and family, and lows so low that they felt like the end of the world.
Now, the world is ending for real. A rogue black hole is coming for Earth and in a month everything and everyone they’ve ever known will be gone.
Suddenly, after 40 years together, Don and Rodney are out of time. They’re in a race against the clock to make it from Maine to Washington State to take care of some unfinished business before it’s all over.
On the road they meet those who refuse to believe death is coming and those who rush to meet it. But there are also people living their final days as best they know how—impromptu weddings, bright burning bonfires, shared meals, and new friends.
And as the black hole draws near, among ball lightning and under a cracked moon in a kaleidoscope sky, Don and Rodney will look back on their lives and ask if their best was good enough.
Is it enough to burn bright if nothing comes from the ashes?
Other TPG Books by TJ Klune
The Cerulean Chronicles
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
The Green Creek Series
Wolfsong
Ravensong
Heartsong
Brothersong
Standalones
The Bones Beneath My Skin
Under the Whispering Door
In the Lives of Puppets
We Burned So Bright
Murmuration
Into This River I Drown
How to Be a Normal Person
BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS
The Extraordinaries Series
The Extraordinaries
Flash Fire
Heat Wave
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APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This lovely and devastating speculative fiction tale made us contemplate where we would be at the end of the world—and who we’d be with. A black hole is poised to rip Earth apart within the next 30 days. So with the clock ticking, elderly couple Rodney and Don climb into an RV and travel across the country, hoping to finally resolve their relationship with their estranged son, Jeremy. As they travel, they meet an array of people who captured our hearts and our imaginations. Some are determined to seize love and joy during their final days, and others are so broken by the imminent apocalypse, they choose violence instead. As their journey unfolds, the fuller picture of Rodney and Don’s life together comes beautifully into focus as well. This poignant, thoughtful novel will leave you considering the roles that love, loss, and legacy play in your own life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The impending end of the world compels an older gay couple to take one last road trip in this melancholy outing from bestseller Klune (The House in the Cerulean Sea). A black hole has been inexorably approaching Earth's solar system; roughly a month remains before it swallows the planet. After 40 years together, Don and Rodney have experienced countless highs and lows, and they face the coming apocalypse with relative equanimity. Nevertheless, they have a promise they need to keep in Washington State, so they set out from Maine in their dilapidated RV. The book plays out as an idiosyncratic travelogue as, along the way, they meet and swap stories with other people bracing for the end, including a nuclear family in Vermont whose kids don't know what's going on, the denizens of a hippie commune in Ohio, and a gun-happy young woman in South Dakota. The story is driven more by character than plot, proving the adage that what truly matters is not what happens but how it happens: Earth can be neither saved nor escaped; all Rodney and Don can do is choose how to spend their final moments. When the motive for their road trip is finally revealed in a bit of tragic backstory, the novel only gets heavier and more poignant. It's both beautiful and bittersweet.
