The Sun Makes A Sound
- Author Name: Andy Whitman
- Publisher: Pete's Press
- Publication Date: 2024
- ISBN: 978-1069000910
- Author Website: https://andywhitman.wordpress.com
About the Book
When a man loses everything on the Canadian tundra, he stumbles into a most unusual sanctuary. As Mason settles into this strange high arctic oasis, his haunted past catches up—and the sanctuary which gives him new purpose in life threatens his freedom, his sanity, and his will to live. The Sun Makes a Sound is a literary fiction novel with a touch of psychological thriller, infused with magical realism and influenced by crises of the modern world known and loathed by Millennials: irresponsible resource development, indigenous injustices, economic recessions, precarious employment, crumbling mental health, and drug addiction. Our narrator is plunged unwillingly into an Orphic journey, taking us through the dungeons of his personal underworld and the constant crossroads of pessimism, optimism, and nihilism. Ultimately, we see a minor triumph of humanity through our ability to rebirth ourselves and raise the vibration of our communities.
About the Author
Andy Whitman is originally from Mississauga, Ontario, and moved west to work and study. He works as an environmental scientist, currently living on Treaty 4 Territory in Regina, Saskatchewan. He has published creative writing since 2011 under the pseudonym Jack Caseros, in honour of the Argentine city where his mother grew up, and he completed Stanford University’s Online Writing Course for Novel Writing in 2019. His short fiction, poetry, and non-fiction has appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine, Syntax & Salt Magazine, and Acentos Review, among other great venues. He has served as an Associate Fiction Editor for the literary magazine, Pithead Chapel, and his flash fiction was awarded as a runner-up in the 2018 True North Writing Contest. When Andy is not writing or dealing with environmental messes, he is usually a very tired horsey for his three children.