In the Blind

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Eugene Marten's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the Blind</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> takes readers through a keyhole and shows it to be a tunnel a cave -- a way through to a hard-earned light. The speaker in this astonishing novel has been released from the boiler room dark of prison but he is not free. He must move on at an angle against all that has been subtracted from the world he returns to and always against the bleak weight of memory. By accident he finds work in a locksmith's shop and something in the dark inner spaces of the locks speaks to him of a universe of locks and to the prospect of a concentration that will open the way to breathable air.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With the uncanny precision of observation found in Cormac McCarthy's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Suttree</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and the eerie mystery of Don Delillo's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Body Artist</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Marten generates a narrative that enthralls. When released by the book's amazing close readers will find themselves in the new light cast by this novel and with a hunger for more of Eugene Marten's fine work.</span></p>