A Violet Light

"CHARLIE KAUFMAN-ESQUE AND BRILLIANT!" Eleni Schirmer, bylines in the NEW YORK TIMES and NEW YORKER

After pulling himself out of a frozen lake, Adrian stumbles into town. What begins as a lively dinner conversation with a new friend becomes a meditation on mortality-with a final twist that changes everything.

"A MASTERPIECE!... one of the better books I've read." - Greg Etingin
"Magical." - Cantor Gideon Zelermyer, Grammy Award winner, "You Want it Darker"
"A wondrous ode to friendship, loss, life and what may follow." - Eric Siblin, bestselling author of "The Cello Suites"
"Highly imaginative... a potent writing sensibility behind it that will produce many more books." - Robert Lecker
"A work of art... a must read." - Joshua Brown
"Beautiful and heartbreaking and moving and so smart!" - Suzanne Zelazo, author of "Lances All Alike"
"Brilliant!"- Arlene McKibbon
"A beautiful story." - Anthony Wexler, University Writing Program, Johns Hopkins University
"One of the most powerful pieces I've ever read." - Jessica Sternthal
"A MUST read for Leonard Cohen fans." - Penni Kolb, executive director of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim

What happens to our dead? Is someone looking out for them on the other side? A Violet Light takes up these questions, exposing fiction's power to imagine what might happen to us on the other side of life. After a fatal accident, a young artist named Adrian finds himself seated at a table with an esteemed guide: the Montreal legend, Leonard Cohen. Together, over the course of a long meal at an idyllic bistro, the dead artists reflect on the meaning of their lives-the struggle to love, the pursuit of fame, and the pleasure of friendship. And slowly, with Leonard's help, Adrian experiences a form of self-acceptance denied him in life.