Publisher's Synopsis
"The Curtain" is a Christian dystopia with hints of utopian literature, historical twists on biblical classics, feminist literature, and psychology. Using familiar modern anxieties about the changing world order and Cold War themes of a nuclear holocaust, "The Curtain" predicts a post-nuclear world with isolated communes, roaming bands of lost souls, a depressed teenager, and a mother's love. The book jumps between narratives ranging from the perspective of the first woman in the Garden, a cursed daughter, orphaned son, to a cat living through the end of the modern age. The Curtain describes the physical and spiritual barrier imposed between God and man: Through these stories, history progresses as mankind's darkness continues to ravage those around him. Broken souls are scattered throughout the book, and "the song of the broken," a song of lament and longing, is interwoven between the characters. The origin of the song is a mystery. But so is the concept of existence itself.
