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The Radiance

by Ayad Akhtar

An accident, an awakening, and an inquiry

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An accident, an awakening, and an inquiry

A hit-and-run leaves a writer confronting a spiritual awakening he cannot separate from madness. The ensuing investigation reaches into a campus scandal and a family secret, while an uncanny attraction draws him toward a colleague. Ayad Akhtar’s novel links intimate entanglements with questions of faith and fracture, moving between rural America and Europe and placing Islam and Christianity alongside the personal and metaphysical. Its central mystery—the accident and its aftermath—gives the story an investigative thread alongside its exploration of spiritual transformation and academic and cultural conflict.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in fiction about spiritual transformation and religious questions.
  • For readers drawn to stories that combine a personal mystery with campus and cultural conflict.
  • For readers interested in settings and perspectives spanning rural America, Europe, Islam, and Christianity.

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Spiritual awakeningFaith and fractureAcademic and cultural conflictFamily secretsThe personal and the metaphysical

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Book overview

A most anticipated novel of 2026. Called a work of genius (Verghese). A mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and an investigation. A visionary novel of spiritual transformation in an age of fracture.
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