This book shows how coming-of-age and elegy can be the same story. Zinna renders all the vivid saturations of grief, but not just that: she also traces the complicated fretwork of young friendship. This book is compulsively readable because no scene or paragraph goes to waste each nuance of thought and feeling gets traced with generous intensity. “Diane Zinna carves her sentences on the page. Jennifer Steil, author of The Ambassador’s Wife Using language so suffused with light and color that it’s hard to look away from her words, Diane Zinna writes movingly about family, friendship, psychic black holes, and the ways in which art and writing can ameliorate the damage life etches on us all. “The All-Night Sun is a provocative examination of the often-blurred boundaries between teacher and student as well as the disorienting effects of grief. Julia Phillips, author of the National Book Award finalist, Disappearing Earth Diane Zinna has given us a tender, aching, and unforgettable story.” “This stunning debut novel explores the space between dreams and nightmares, life and death, the brilliance of the midnight sun and the darkness when you shut your eyes. Claire Messud, New York Times bestselling author of The Burning Girl This is a memorable and meaningful novel.” It’s also about risk and sorrow, about how our stories can fatefully mask reality. “Diane Zinna’s The All-Night Sun is an unexpected love story-about rebirth after loss, about the human connections that art and literature enable, about the adventures we undertake and the tales we tell ourselves to get by. Refinery29 (“The 25 Books You’ll Want To Read This Summer”) “ unsettling, mesmerizing debut… In gently hypnotic prose, Zinna beautifully explores the transformative powers of grief, loneliness, intimate friendships, and the hunger we have to be understood. Her stunning debut novel is a twisting tale of grief, hope and self-deceit, a story as mesmerizing as the young women at its heart. “In The All-Night Sun, Diane Zinna displays her deep understanding of the writing craft….
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