The Curious Case of the Village in the Moonlight

<p><em>Saint-Paul Mental Asylum France June 1889</em></p><p><br></p><p>Newly admitted patient Vincent Van Gogh watched as the first stars of what would become <em>The Starry Night</em> blinked to life over the sleepy village of Saint-Rémy.</p><p><br></p><p>In that village lived a lamplighter. That notorious starry night would be his last one on the job. The town was scheduled to be wired with a new and innovative technology called 'electricity' the following day. The lamplighter began his last night of work at the village tavern during green hour - an absinthe-drenched celebration in his honor. Green hour would transform the night from familiar to fantastical with the village street lamps mysteriously vanishing. The lamplighter finds himself swept away on a wonderfully strange adventure to find and light the lost lamps one that will take him from the depths of wish-filled rivers to the heights of the star-filled sky. Along the way the lamplighter finds help from a curious cast of characters including the Man in the Moon an ages-old cypress tree and the wind itself. It will take all of them to find the lost lamps and a lost love.</p><p><br></p><p>From author of the highly acclaimed <em>Fairytale Chicago of Francesca Finnegan</em> comes a thought-provoking and unconventional novella sure to help readers rediscover the stars.</p>