| Bright's Passage | |
| Author: | Josh Ritter |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Dial Press |
| Release Date: | June 28th 2011 |
| Media Type: | |
| Pages: | 208 |
| Isbn: | 978-1-4000-6950-7 |
Bright's Passage is the debut novel by singer/songwriter Josh Ritter. It is published by Dial Press and was released June 28, 2011.[1] The first chapter had been previously released for free download on Ritter's official website.[2]
The novel follows a young, widowed veteran of the First World War, Henry Bright, as he and his infant son, along with an unlikely guardian angel flee from a forest fire and Bright's cruel in-laws. Shifting between their strange journey through West Virginia's hickory-canopied foothills, Bright's plausible memories of the trenches of France, and recollections from his childhood, the novel is at times suspenseful and kinetic, quiet and eerie, and at times humorous.