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Author Nora Gallagher at All Souls Cathedral

last modified 02-05-2007 04:39 PM

"Spiritual memoirist, Nora Gallagher, will read from her debut novel, Changing Light, on Sunday, February 18th, 3 p.m., in the nave of The Cathedral of All Souls in Biltmore Village, Asheville.

"Spiritual memoirist, Nora Gallagher, will read from her debut novel, Changing Light, on Sunday, February 18th, 3 p.m., in the nave of The Cathedral of All Souls in Biltmore Village, Asheville.  A love story set against the creation of the first atomic bomb, Changing Light asks the question (and these are Nora Gallagher's words): "What would have happened if one of the physicists from Los Alamos decided to leave the Manhattan Project and work against it?"  A book-signing and reception will follow.  Free and open to the public, Ms. Gallagher's reading has been co-sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina and the Kay Falk Literary Project at All Souls."

 The novel is to be released on February 13th, 2007, and so far, the reviews are splendid:


“Changing Light is a love story about desperate people with brains, told quietly and passionately, and stuffed with clear New Mexico light; specifically, the terrible, majestic lights and shadows of Los Alamos in ’45, when The Bomb was born. It unfolds in a remote place that was very near the heart of the 20th century, it is as truthful as an old ballad, and nearly as elegant as Einstein’s physics.”
—Peter Behrens

“Changing Light is a lyrical and passionate novel that takes on some of the largest matters of our day with no loss to its intimacy.  Conviction that writing matters the way life matters is Gallagher's hallmark, and this reader is her grateful beneficiary."
—Thomas McGuane

“At last, a novel about something. Nora Gallagher captures with dazzling beauty the lives of a woman and a man caught in the grip of history and our country’s shadowed past. I held my breath reading it.”
—Annie Dillard
 
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