Description: "Lush. . . . At once dark and profound. . . . [ The Illumination ] never fails to be deeply felt and precisely observed." -- The New York Times Book Review "A beautiful novel. . . . Brockmeier is a dazzling stylist." -- The Washington Post Book World "Stunningly original . . . this gorgeously written book will still stay with [readers] long after the last page is turned." -- The Oregonian "Show[s] us the astonishment of life as it is really being lived." -- The Boston Globe "Moving. . . . Skillfully explores the relationship between love and memory." -- The New Yorker "The depth of [Brockmeier's] scrutiny makes his fiction glow." -- The Plain Dealer "Brockmeier's characters are wonderful, and his images are dazzling." -- Detroit Free Press " The Illumination imagines a real universe of pain and pleasure, connection and disconnection, and quest for meaning that defines human experience delightfully anew." -- The Miami Herald "Brockmeier's consistently arresting observations have the throb of lived--rather than merely imagined--experience. . . . In The Illumination it isn't our agonies and discomforts that define us, but the selves we build in response to them." --Salon "Brockmeier's work has always been characterized by his crystalline and surprising descriptions. . . . Brilliant. . . . Thorough and honest." -- Southern Literary Review "Lyrical. . . . Both the quotidian warmth of the notebook and the increasingly incidental shimmer of physical suffering draw the characters--and us--into the complex and vivid consideration of some of the fundamental questions that come with being human." -- The Times Literary Supplement (London) "[A] sunlit novel." -- Time Out Chicago "Fresh and ingenious. . . . Brockmeier has one of those imaginations that churns out picture-perfect imagery." -- Elle "Brockmeier's book positively sparkles . . . We've never read anything like it." -- Daily Candy San Francisco

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