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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.
Marvelous, spiritually charged fiction, an example of the contemporary American novel at its best.
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James Boyle
reviewed Night Sky, The on May 15, 2019
Night Sky, The
A brilliant portrait of a single mother with artistic ambitions. This book was published more than 25 years ago, and since then, the phenomenon of single mothers has become more commonplace. It illustrated, to me at least, the madness a newborn infant can engender; especially if reared by only one adult.
Children, back in them early days, used to be the responsibility of an entire horde of adults. In post WW2 urban America, not so much. I think Morris captures this well: The highly individualistic nature of modern city life--where one is left to one's own devices, even if saddled by an infant.
The only acts of kindness encountered by the narrator are not from those it is expected of, but from those that are the least likely to perform them.
My heart went out to Ivy. I wanted to take her in and help her, marry her. Maybe it's because I'm gonna turn 30 soon and find myself thinking of having kids. Or maybe Morris is just good at telling a story, making you feel what she wants you to.
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