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One of the unheralded masterpieces of twentieth-century American fiction, Light

While There Is Light is acclaimed poet Keith Waldrops autobiographical novel about the myriad ghosts left behind by his family. Born to a deeply religious mother, the narrator and his siblings are led across the US as she searches for the right religious secta trip that ends with her speaking in tongues, and finally her total isolation. But no synopsis can do justice to the beauty of Keith Waldrops measured, wise, and unembroidered prose, illuminating the fear, madness, and destruction within hearth and homethough never repudiating his love for same. In a tradition that stretches back through Flannery OConnor and William Faulkner to Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, Keith Waldrop and Light While There Is Light are American treasures.