A timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn to--and unmoored by--a local activist group more dangerous than it appears.
Baxter lives in Minneapolis..
He has won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
Henry Prize Story Anthology.
His stories have appeared in several anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The O.
About author(s): CHARLES Baxter is the author of the novels The Feast of Love (nominated for the National Book Award), First Light, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, The Soul Thief, and The Sun Collective , and the story collections Believers, Gryphon, Harmony of the World, A Relative Stranger, There\'s Something I Want You to Do, and Through the Safety Net.
A vision of modern American society and the specters of the consumerism, fanaticism, and fear that haunt it, The Sun Collective captures both the mystery and the violence that punctuate our daily lives.
Christina, a young woman rapidly becoming addicted to a boutique drug that gives her a feeling of blessedness, is inexplicably drawn to the same Collective by a man who\'s convinced he may start a revolution.
She checks the usual places-- churches, storefronts, benches--and stumbles upon a local community group with lofty goals and an enigmatic leader.
And though she knows he left on purpose, his mother has been searching for him all over their home city of Minneapolis.
His father thinks he may have seen him among some homeless people.
Once a promising actor, Tim Brettigan has gone missing.
From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and "one of our most gifted writers" ( Chicago Tribune ).
A timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn to--and unmoored by--a local activist group more dangerous than it appears
