Editor“In this epic journey through brutalized, fractured communities within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, award-winning writer Mark Jacobs presents an intense and poignant novel of vulnerable outsiders at the peripheries of hell navigating inter-ethnic quarrels, government corruption, and the aftereffects of European imperialism. Jacobs, a former foreign service officer, is a prolific short story writer and author of six books, one of which won the Maria Thomas Fiction Award. His newest, Silent Light, offers a suspenseful though frequently harrowing account of a valiant displaced American and a Congolese orphan brought together by chance, braving the harsh complexities of a region tarnished by disease, disaster, and several decades of rampant violence.”
Nicholas Litchfield’s review of Jacobs’ powerful story was published this week in the Colorado Review. You can read the full book review at the web link:
