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Set in a framed historical fictional universe, depicting a small town in Pennsylvania in the early building stages of young America, designed as historical fiction and inspirational tale, the novel The Passing Light tells the story of Jonathan, an Irish Immigrant, and his sister Joan, with their struggles and joys as they try to survive and find a way of life and people as well as animals to love. Both meet wonderful companions, learn to love again after brutal childhoods, and finally happily marry.
Themes of poverty and abuse, tragic famines, early deaths, and a lack of dignity for all of life surround the main characters as they try to form and find ways to be American. With a twenty-first century storyteller who relates the tales from a diary, the authors create a novel that bears the pain and truth of three centuries to reach out to readers about the need for social justice and healing through service and the strength gained by extraordinary virtues of faith and hope through the love of humans and animal companions.
The Irish, Jonathan and his sister, Joan, who flee Ireland during the Potato Famine, build a new life in America with the aid of Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos, Latinas, and other immigrants. Set in the twenty-first century and told by a Polish Jewish archeologist who finds a diary, The Passing Light tells the story of the nineteenth and twentieth century resilience, courage, and faith. When Jonathan becomes blind, he learns to live again with the help of his companion dog, with the miracle of the first service dog as the guide to the human master. Eventually, Jonathan marries, but his sister, Joan, dies in childbirth. As the baby grows, Lily, as the adopted daughter of Jonathan, will marry a former slave. Harshly bruised by the loss of his real family, Elon, an African American and former slave, marries Lily. Their relationship helps to heal a community and the immigrants who live with fear of poverty with his generosity and community spirit.
We balance the message with the action and develop the semi-autobiographical storyteller character Margaret through her creation of secondary characters to represent other immigrants.
Two main characters die in the novel: Joan and Daighre. Their lives and deaths represent the hardships and love found in the people who died during the great hunger. We honor all the dead and cherish those who fled to America to make a new life. The Passing Light contains memoir and motivational self-help themes.
Ultimately, The Passing Light, our reaching to the reader for compassionate healing, offers grief therapy as we journey with Jonathan through his life goal of saving his sister, Joan, then losing her as she dies in childbirth, to raising Joan’s child, Lily, with newfound renewed hope and peace as he progresses through the grief stages with guidance from the Holy Spirit.
Margaret Cummins is a fictional archaeologist and creation of the authors, a character who finds a diary on an island during a dig in Pennsylvania in the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, and subsequently wrote The Passing Light based on her experience in the craft of writing.
Margaret creates Jonathan as passages of light, based on remembrances of Margaret’s unique interpretations. Margaret Cummins, a semi-autobiographical representation of the authors, archaeologist, of the twentieth century, finds a diary by Daighre of the twentieth century.
Margaret translates the dairy for us. Margaret is also a part of the story as she writes with the tears of the authors who have also experienced famine just like the main characters created by Margaret based on her understanding of a diary. She speaks as the voice of the authors when she describes her inner pain and triumph representative of the human speaking talent.
Her presence acts as a bridge from the past to the future.
Themes of poverty and abuse, tragic famines, early deaths, and a lack of dignity for all of life surround the main characters as they try to form and find ways to be American. With a twenty-first century storyteller who relates the tales from a diary, the authors create a novel that bears the pain and truth of three centuries to reach out to readers about the need for social justice and healing through service and the strength gained by extraordinary virtues of faith and hope through the love of humans and animal companions.
The Irish, Jonathan and his sister, Joan, who flee Ireland during the Potato Famine, build a new life in America with the aid of Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos, Latinas, and other immigrants. Set in the twenty-first century and told by a Polish Jewish archeologist who finds a diary, The Passing Light tells the story of the nineteenth and twentieth century resilience, courage, and faith. When Jonathan becomes blind, he learns to live again with the help of his companion dog, with the miracle of the first service dog as the guide to the human master. Eventually, Jonathan marries, but his sister, Joan, dies in childbirth. As the baby grows, Lily, as the adopted daughter of Jonathan, will marry a former slave. Harshly bruised by the loss of his real family, Elon, an African American and former slave, marries Lily. Their relationship helps to heal a community and the immigrants who live with fear of poverty with his generosity and community spirit.
We balance the message with the action and develop the semi-autobiographical storyteller character Margaret through her creation of secondary characters to represent other immigrants.
Two main characters die in the novel: Joan and Daighre. Their lives and deaths represent the hardships and love found in the people who died during the great hunger. We honor all the dead and cherish those who fled to America to make a new life. The Passing Light contains memoir and motivational self-help themes.
Ultimately, The Passing Light, our reaching to the reader for compassionate healing, offers grief therapy as we journey with Jonathan through his life goal of saving his sister, Joan, then losing her as she dies in childbirth, to raising Joan’s child, Lily, with newfound renewed hope and peace as he progresses through the grief stages with guidance from the Holy Spirit.
Margaret Cummins is a fictional archaeologist and creation of the authors, a character who finds a diary on an island during a dig in Pennsylvania in the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, and subsequently wrote The Passing Light based on her experience in the craft of writing.
Margaret creates Jonathan as passages of light, based on remembrances of Margaret’s unique interpretations. Margaret Cummins, a semi-autobiographical representation of the authors, archaeologist, of the twentieth century, finds a diary by Daighre of the twentieth century.
Margaret translates the dairy for us. Margaret is also a part of the story as she writes with the tears of the authors who have also experienced famine just like the main characters created by Margaret based on her understanding of a diary. She speaks as the voice of the authors when she describes her inner pain and triumph representative of the human speaking talent.
Her presence acts as a bridge from the past to the future.
