“When I began The Nature of Dusk, I never believed I would ever finish it, let alone that I would eventually send it out and find an agent interested in representing me. I approached it, at first, as a distraction from work. But with the weeks and then months passing, I discovered that the manuscript was taking an increasingly large space in my mind, and that, perhaps, professional feedback would help me understand if the direction I was taking made any sense.” From the Introduction