{"product_id":"radiance-ayad-akhtar-9781668078631","title":"The Radiance","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOVEL EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT IN 2026 \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e A \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Simply put, a work of genius.\" --Abraham Verghese, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Covenant of Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eA mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and an investigation in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar's most daring work yet--a visionary novel of spiritual transformation in an age of fracture--\"bordering at times on the ineffable\" (Mary Gaitskill, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBad\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBehavior\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is plunged into a spiritual awakening he can't tell from madness. In its grip, he's drawn to a brilliant campus colleague by an uncanny pull, and into a scandal that threatens to destroy them both. What begins as a provocative portrait of academic and cultural warfare deepens into erotic entanglement, the exposure of a family secret, and the mystery surrounding the narrator's accident--both the violence and its aftermath. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Moving between rural America and Europe, Islam and Christianity, the intimate and the metaphysical, \u003ci\u003eThe Radiance\u003c\/i\u003e is of our American moment and beyond it--asking not only what has broken, but what radiance remains.","brand":"S\u0026s\/Summit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50391221108929,"sku":"9781668078631","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/5512\/0833\/files\/9781668078631.jpg?v=1783627101","url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/radiance-ayad-akhtar-9781668078631","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}