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  • Needs a careful reading. This is an apocalyptic style novel of the near future. It's hard to follow between various people in various time frames who could be different people in other time frames.
    The writing is exquisite.

    The second half has separate literal narrative line that contin ... Continue

    Needs a careful reading. This is an apocalyptic style novel of the near future. It's hard to follow between various people in various time frames who could be different people in other time frames.
    The writing is exquisite.

    The second half has separate literal narrative line that continues across each page, separate but thematically relevant to the other text on that page.

    

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• ― Onthaxis said on May 18, 2008 | Add your feedback

Our Ecstatic Days begins as the memoir of a young mother desperate to forget a single act, committed out of love and fear, that has changed forever the world around her. In the waning days of summer, a lake appears, almost overnight, in the middle of Los Angeles. In an instant of either madness or revelation, convinced that the lake means to take her small son from her, Kristin becomes determined to stop it. Three thousand miles away, on the eve of a momentous event, another young woman -- with a bond to Kristin that she can't even know -- meets a mysterious figure who announces in the dark, "The Age of Chaos is here."

Against a forbidden landscape that shimmers with destiny and yearning, Our Ecstatic Days finally takes place on the terrain of a defiant heart. Human connections multiply into astonishing twists of fate -- by which the wrongs of an obsolete century may be set right -- and parallel lives spin faster toward the possibility that they will once again unite, electrifying a vision of the century to come.