City of Tranquil Light: A Novel
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City of Tranquil Light: A Novel
By Bo Caldwell
Henry Holt and Company, 2010
287 Pages
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City of Tranquil Light is a beautifully written page turner best characterized as either a historical novel or “fictionalized history.” Based on the lives of the author’s grandparents, who served in North China at the turn of the 20th century, their compelling story of life together is told with simplicity and beauty. Written as a memoir by the eighty-one year old widower living in a retirement home in Southern California, the book is built on the literary device of his personal recollections and long quotes from his dead wife’s diary. The powerful story of Will and Katherine Kiehn is filled with adventure, suffering, devastating loss, joy and love for God and each other. This book will cause you to weep, and also rejoice, at this remarkable couple’s faith-life example.
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