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On a Night of a Thousand Stars by Andrea Yaryura Clark
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“A skillful debut which serves as a reminder that a country’s past can never be left in the past.” —Kirkus Reviews
“With suspense and heartbreak, Clark’s debut novel explores the human toll of Argentina’s Dirty War, whose atrocities can still upend the most cloistered and prosperous lives.” —Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
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In this moving, emotional narrative of love and resilience, a young couple confronts the start of Argentina’s Dirty War in the 1970s, and a daughter searches for truth twenty years later.
New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila, and their daughter, Paloma, a college student and budding jewelry designer, at their annual summer polo match and soiree. All seems perfect in the Larreas’ world — until an unexpected party guest from Santiago’s university days shakes his usually unflappable demeanor. The woman’s cryptic comments spark Paloma’s curiosity about her father’s past, of which she knows little.
When the family travels to Buenos Aires for Santiago’s UN ambassadorial appointment, Paloma is determined to learn more about his life in the years leading up to the military dictatorship of 1976. With the help of a local university student, Franco Bonetti, an activist member of H.I.J.O.S. — a group whose members are the children of the desaparecidos, or the “disappeared,” men and women who were forcibly disappeared by the state during Argentina’s “Dirty War” — Paloma unleashes a chain of events that not only leads her to question her family and her identity, but also puts her life in danger.
In compelling fashion, On a Night of a Thousand Stars speaks to relationships, morality and identity during a brutal period in Argentinian history, and the understanding — and redemption — people crave in the face of tragedy.
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Yours Always by Henry Scott
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“Proof that loved ones continue to live on, as long as others are willing to share their stories through the generations.” —BookTrib
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Bertha and Henry included the valediction “yours always” on virtually every letter that they wrote to each other from their engagement in 1892 until Henry’s death in 1911, nearly 1500 letters in all.
In her last letter to Henry before their marriage, she wrote: “… there is another greater reason why I do not fear the future, my dearest. I believe that you and I truly belong to those ‘whom God hath joined together’ and I am not afraid, my dearest, to promise ‘in the sight of God and of this company’ to be yours always.”
As one reads their letters and comes to know them, “yours always” embodies the faith and love that Bertha and Henry shared for each other.
Learn more about this fascinating true love story in BookTrib’s review here.
