![]() ![]() Unblinkingly, Quinn leads the reader into the night-darkness of Nora’s riveting and harrowing narrative. Quinn doesn’t sugarcoat this story of terribly harmful familial relationships experienced by Nora, the sympathetic protagonist. “Quinn’s debut novel is stunning in its profound emotional authenticity and the luminosity of the prose. Exquisitely nuanced and profoundly intimate, The Night Child is a story of resilience, hope, and the capacity of the mind, body, and spirit to save itself despite all odds. This breathtaking debut novel examines the impact of traumatic childhood experiences and the fragile line between past and present. ![]() ![]() As the story progresses, a terrible secret is discovered-a secret that pushes Nora toward an even deeper psychological breakdown. Shaken and unsteady, Nora meets with neurologists and eventually, a psychiatrist. Twenty-four hours later, while on Thanksgiving vacation, the face appears again. Terror rushes through Nora’s body-the kind of raw terror you feel when there’s no way out, when every cell in your body, your entire body, is on fire-when you think you might die.” But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl’s face appears above the students’ desks-“a wild numinous face with startling blue eyes, a face floating on top of shapeless drapes of purples and blues where arms and legs should have been. Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. ![]()
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