Leaving a dilapidated Earth behind, Quakers across the globe pool funds and resources as they select colonists to send to a newly discovered planet to start life anew in this ‘;miraculous fusion ofscience fiction with unsparing realism and keen psychology’ (Ursula K. Le Guin). In this ‘;carefully conceived and deeply affecting’ (The New York Times) novel, award-winning author Molly Gloss turns her attention to the frontiers of the future. A group of Quakers band together to abandon the ailing Earth, and travel to a settle a whole new world. The Dazzle of Day is their story. ‘;The Dazzle of Day is a heartbreakingly good book…a rare dream of a book, passionate and lyric. The Dazzle of Day allows us to see our own world, our own present, more profoundly’ (San Jose Mercury News).
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