The Signal Flame (Broché)

In their small town in northeastern Pennsylvania, Hannah and her son Bo mourn the loss of the family patriarch, Jozef Vinich. They were three generations under one roof, a war-haunted family in a war-tom century. Now they await Hannah's prodigal younger son, Bo's brother, Sam, who was reported missing in action in Vietnam. A meditation about generations of men and women and the events that define them, old-world values yielding to new-world ways, and the convalescence of memory and hurt, this ambitious novel gracefully evokes a period of living and working while waiting and watching and expecting.
The Signal Flame is gorgeously written, honoring the cycles of earth and body, humming with blood and passion, and it confirms Andrew Krivák as a writer of extraordinary vision and power. Andrew Krivák's debut novel, The Sojourn, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction, as well as the inaugural Chautauqua Prize. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts.
The Signal Flame is his second novel.