Oh God, the Sun Goes

"A highly original and engagingly odd book." - Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World

"...wondrous...mysterious...Connor lands plenty of stimulating riffs on themes of memory, love, and loss, all in lyrical prose and suffused with surreal imagery." - Publishers Weekly

An "indescribable marvel" (Jonathan Lethem) of a debut novel from a brilliant new voice

The sun has disappeared from the sky. No one can explain where it has gone, but one wayward traveler is determined to try. As our unnamed narrator begins his odyssey across the parched landscapes of the American Southwest, he is drawn into a web of illusion and mystery, a shifting astral mindscape that shimmers with the aftermath of loss--and the promise of redemption.

Oh God, the Sun Goes is a hallucinatory and deadpan picaresque that suddenly swerves into a love story of soaring poignance. Truly "the stuff that dreams are made of" - or maybe nightmares?

Apocalyptic, mesmerizing, and utterly unique, Oh God, the Sun Goes introduces readers to a young and keenly inventive mind.

4 one of a kind illustrations within and on the outside a cool holographic foil stamp cover.

Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781685890629


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/19/2023
Foreword 06/27/2023

About the Author
David Connor studied at Pomona College and the California Institute of the Arts, where he was the recipient of the William H. Ahmanson Endowed Scholarship Award. His work has received awards and finalist consideration at Blue Mesa Review, Glimmer Train, Pacifica Literary Review, and Cincinnati Review. He lives in New York City and Montreal, Canada, where he works as a research assistant at the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research. Oh God, the Sun Goes is his first novel.