From my review of In the Light of You at INDenverTimes.
While reading Nathan Singer’s raw and beautiful novel, In the Light of You, I kept being reminded of a key quote from another of my favorite books about Nazis, Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night. In Vonnegut’s novel, the protagonist, Howard W. Campbell, is an American double-agent, broadcasting secret information to the Allies in a Nazi radio show which he produces. The only problem being, as Campbell comes to understand, is that his value as a propagandist to the Nazis is far greater than the information he’s been broadcasting. As he realizes, “we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
The rest here.
