The Dazzle of Day (Paperback) [Gloss, Molly]

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 ¢ € œmiraculous fusion of ¢ € ¦science fiction with unsparing realism and keen psychology ¢ € � (Ursula K. Le Guin). ‚  

In this ¢ € œcarefully 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.

¢ € œThe 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).