First Lines of Richard Powers "Bewilderment"

"But we might never find them? We'd set up the scope on the deck, on a clear autumn night, on the edge of one of the last patches of darkness in the eastern U.S. Darkness this good was hard to come by, and so much darkness in one place lit up the sky. We pointed the tube through a gap in the trees above our rented cabin. Robin pulled his eye from the eyepiece--my sad, singular, new turning nine-year-old, in trouble with this world." 

- Richard Powers, Bewilderment.

This book both inspired and scared me. It also broke my heart. Beautiful writing. 

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