Description
From the acclaimed author of Letter to My Daughter
comes an engrossing coming-of-age tale that deftly conveys the hopes
and heartaches of adolescence and the unfulfilled dreams that divide a
family, played out against the backdrop of a small southern town in
1973.
For his fourteenth birthday, Alan Broussard, Jr.,
receives a telescope from his father, a science teacher at the local
high school who’s eagerly awaiting what he promises will be the
astronomical event of the century: the coming of Comet Kohoutek. For
Alan Broussard, Sr.—frustrated in his job, remote from his family—the
comet is a connection to his past and a bridge to his son, with whom
he’s eager to share his love for the stars.
But the only
celestial body Junior has any interest in is his captivating new
neighbor and classmate, Gabriella Martello, whose bedroom sits within
eyeshot of his telescope’s lens. Meanwhile, his mother, Lydia, sees the
comet—and her husband’s obsession with it—as one more thing that keeps
her from the bigger, brighter life she once imagined for herself far
from the swampy environs of Terrebonne, Louisiana. With Kohoutek
drawing ever closer, the family begins to crumble under the weight of
expectations, until a startling turn of events will leave both father
and son much less certain about the laws that govern their universe.
Illuminating and unforgettable, The Night of the Comet is a novel about the perils of growing up, the longing for connection, and the idea that love and redemption can be found among the stars.
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