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Jan 1, 2011 · Henry Bright is newly returned to West Virginia from the battlefields of the First World War. Grief struck by the death of his young wife and unsure of how to care for the infant son she left behind, Bright is soon confronted by the destruction of the only home he’s ever known.
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- Josh Ritter
Complete summary of Josh Ritter's Bright's Passage. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Bright's Passage.
The novel follows a young, widowed veteran of the First World War, Henry Bright, as he and his infant son, along with an unlikely guardian angel flee from a forest fire and Bright's cruel in-laws.
Aug 3, 2011 · Bright's Passage, Ritter's debut novel, reads like a protracted folk song and features many of the form's perennial motifs: Biblical names, blazing fires, ghosts in white lace, a...
Jul 1, 2011 · After Henry’s young bride dies in childbirth, the angel instructs Henry to bury her sans coffin and then set fire to the cabin where the Brights lived during their short marriage.
May 15, 2012 · Henry Bright has newly returned to West Virginia from the battlefields of the First World War. Griefstruck by the death of his young wife and unsure of how to care for the infant son she left behind, Bright is soon confronted by the destruction of the only home he's ever known.
- Josh Ritter
Jun 28, 2011 · Josh Ritter’s first novel is a wondrous, suspenseful, and uniquely affecting story of the journey taken by a father and his infant son. Henry Bright is newly returned to West Virginia from the battlefields of the First World War.
