The book reminds me of Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping," another flaying first novel, both of them imagistically obsessive, spiritually uncompromising stories of water, light, death and girls.
To the east, and right amidships of the dawn, which was all pink, the daystar sparkled like a diamond... .., beautifully setting up the conflicts to come: night and day, dark and light, death and love.
A light death, a small death, an adorable death".
Looking through pictures of neon church/graveyard God's Own Junkyard, we don't think we've seen this many illuminated signs since the climactic forest-of-neon-lights-death-scene in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo &Juliet.
Taken, by Winsome Pinnock, tells of a woman just out of rehab facing up to her past; Sam Holcroft's Dancing Bears is about teenage girl gangs; and Chloe Moss's Fatal Light tackles deaths in custody.
The problem with bottom-up counts, like the FBI collection that begins with police records, is a severe attrition rate for data as it climbs toward the national light, as deaths go unreported or unrelayed from one level to another.
The so-called "Blue Light of Death" (an unflattering tribute to the "Red Ring of Death" errors that afflicted Microsoft's Xbox 360) has stopped consoles connecting with TVs.
The BBC is running a piece about "the yellow light of death," the PS3's equivalent of the Xbox 360's "red ring of death".
Insufficient light causes death or retardation of growth in green plants.
As Katy embraces the white light of death, iPhone flashlights ignite the sky, and the children sing "Silent Night".
