The fiction winner in Christianity Today’s 2020 Book Awards is Shawn Smucker’s Light from Distant Stars (Revell).
“It’s a dark story at times, but at the heart of it is a man trying to find his father,” Shawn said in our Q&A last June. “And in the end, he has realizations about himself and his dad that change the way he views the events of his life. I think we are all given this task—to try to bring hope to the things that have happened to us.”
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When Cohen Marah steps over his father’s body in the basement embalming room of the family’s funeral home, he has no idea that he is stepping into a labyrinth of memory. Over the next week, Cohen’s childhood comes back in living color: a series of dramatic events. As the lines blur between what was real and what was imaginary, Cohen is faced with the question he’s been avoiding: Is he responsible for his father’s death? Master story weaver Shawn Smucker relays a tale both eerie and enchanting, one that will have you questioning reality and reaching out for what is true, good, and genuine.
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Nicole Baart, novelist and author of You Were Always Mine and Little Broken Things, says, “Light from Distant Stars is a singular experience, one infused with all the beauty and mystery of a broken creation that groans as in the pains of childbirth.”
The Christianity Today Book Awards honor the titles they consider “most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture.” Find a complete list of winners here.
Visit Shawn Smucker’s author page here:
https://www.familyfiction.com/authors/shawn-smucker
Light from Distant Stars
Shawn Smucker
Revell