Bright's Passage Booksigning and Reading

Talking Leaves… is proud to present a special reading and signing with Random House author (and Pytheas Recordings artist) Josh Ritter, who will read from his debut novel, Bright's Passage, on Thursday, July 7 at 5pm in the Hallwalls Cinema at Babeville (341 Delaware Ave). Ritter's reading will be prior to his concert in Asbury Hall that evening, and Talking Leaves… has a limited number of book/concert tickets, for admission to both events. The cost for the book/concert package is $40.00: you will receive a copy of Bright's Passage to take to the reading for Josh to sign!

A bit about Bright's Passage:

Josh Ritter's first novel is a wondrous, suspenseful, and uniquely affecting story of the journey taken by a father and his infant son.

Henry Bright is newly returned to West Virginia from the battlefields of the First World War. Grief struck by the death of his young wife and unsure of how to care for the infant son she left behind, Bright is soon confronted by the destruction of the only home he's ever known. His only hope for safety is the angel who has followed him to Appalachia from the trenches of France and who now promises to protect him and his son.

Together, Bright and his newborn, along with a cantankerous goat and the angel guiding them, make their way through a landscape ravaged by forest fire toward an uncertain salvation, haunted by the abiding nightmare of his experiences in the war and shadowed by his dead wife's father, the Colonel, and his two brutal sons.

At times harrowing, at times funny, and always possessed by the sheer gorgeousness and unique imagination that have made Josh Ritter's songs beloved to so many, this is the debut of a virtuoso fiction writer.