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Simon Van Booy is the award-winning, bestselling author of more than a dozen books for adults and children, including The Secret Lives of People in Love and Sipsworth. He is the anthologist of three volumes of philosophy and has written for The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, and the BBC. His books have been translated into many languages and optioned for film. Raised in rural North Wales, he currently lives in New York where he is also a book editor and a volunteer E.M.T. crew chief.
Praise for Night Came with Many Stars Simon Van Booy's spellbinding novel is told with an exquisite and poetic delicacy, imbued with a profound compassion for the humanity of its characters. It is a gorgeously written, deeply moving triumph. -Gabriel Byrne, Walking with Ghosts I read this novel in a headlong rush, unable to break free of its spell. Beautiful as an old bruise, plain-spoken as a prayer, Night Came with Many Stars rings hard and true with the poetry of real life. Van Booy knows that love and heartache go hand-in-hand-and that cold hard reality is no match for the dreams and longings each of us carry inside. -Christina Baker Kline, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Orphan Train This beautiful novel left me with a heightened appreciation of the pattern created by each individual life, as well as the larger pattern of several lives overlapping. Night Came with Many Stars is about impermanence and resilience, and the marvelous randomness of the world. -Sara Baume, Spill Simmer Falter Wither Simon Van Booy's Night Came With Many Stars is an ambitious and deeply humane novel about the lives of an American family across multiple generations. Not since Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff and Denis Johnson's Jesus's Son has middle America been so powerfully evoked and brilliantly animated. This is a monumental novel that brings something new and resonant to the classic American multi-generational family novel. -Chigozie Obioma, author of The Fisherman I have long loved the work of Simon Van Booy, and this spare, gorgeously-written novel may be his best yet. These unforgettable characters and the intersection of their destinies through time form a pattern as true and human and beautiful as life itself. -Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance A breathtaking talent and an artist in the fullest sense of the word, few writers sculpt their sentences with such beautiful precision, and fewer still imbue their characters with such depth of humanity. Night Came with Many Stars is a triumph, possibly his best work yet, a devastating, heartbreaking, and deeply truthful novel that will keep its hooks in the reader long beyond the final page. A stunning achievement. -Billy O'Callaghan, author of Life Sentences
