https://coloradosun.com/category/sunlit/book-excerpts/ Telling stories that matter in a dynamic, evolving state. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:43:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://newspack-coloradosun.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cropped-favicon-32x32.png https://coloradosun.com/category/sunlit/book-excerpts/ 32 32 210193391 https://coloradosun.com/2026/06/21/sunlit-king-of-the-gulls-stefan-scheuermann-paul-alexander/ Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:15:00 +0000 https://coloradosun.com/?p=491214 In "King of the Gulls" by Stefan Scheuermann and Paul Alexander, a medieval knight's lyrical exchange with a phantom warrior princess through the night leaves him battered but enlightened.]]> 491214 https://coloradosun.com/2026/06/14/sunlit-how-to-commit-a-postcolonial-murder-nina-mcconigley/ Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:15:00 +0000 https://coloradosun.com/?p=489033 In Nina McConigley's debut novel, "How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder," she explores sisterhood, trauma and identity within the immigrant experience in the American West.]]> 489033 https://coloradosun.com/2026/06/07/sunlit-like-snow-before-sun-marianne-sulser/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:15:00 +0000 https://coloradosun.com/?p=487904 In this excerpt from "Like Snow Before Sun," new historical fiction from Marianne Rabalais Sulser, an Acadian father and daughter caught between English and French cultures navigate difficult times in 18th-century Nova Scotia.]]> 487904 https://coloradosun.com/2026/05/31/sunlit-chaos-in-the-green-zone-tom-mowle/ Sun, 31 May 2026 08:15:00 +0000 https://coloradosun.com/?p=486478 In "Chaos in the Green Zone," author Tom Mowle, describes being plucked from his faculty job at the Air Force Academy and arriving overseas to witness the absurdity of U.S. intervention in the second Iraq war.]]> 486478 https://coloradosun.com/2026/05/24/sunlit-wild-ride-lenore-mitchell/ Sun, 24 May 2026 08:15:00 +0000 https://coloradosun.com/?p=486695 Lenore Mitchell's novel, "Wild Ride" introduces the protagonist who would create a refuge for wild horses, and an old friend who complicates matters.]]> 486695 https://coloradosun.com/2026/05/17/sunlit-a-well-too-full-daniel-ginsberg/ Sun, 17 May 2026 08:15:00 +0000 https://coloradosun.com/?p=486025 In this excerpt from "A Well Too Full," Daniel Ginsberg's protagonist, Banty Connors, reintroduces herself to the cops she knows she can ill-afford to trust in the trilogy finale.]]> 486025 https://coloradosun.com/2026/05/10/sunlit-blossoms-on-a-poisoned-sea-mariko-tatsumoto/ Sun, 10 May 2026 08:15:00 +0000 https://coloradosun.com/?p=485198 In "Blossoms on a Poisoned Sea," Mariko Tatsumoto's historical novel, a family afflicted with disease from mercury poisoning meets the public's mostly unsympathic gaze.]]> 485198 https://coloradosun.com/2026/05/03/sunlit-the-silence-that-remains-meg-wingerter/ Sun, 03 May 2026 08:15:00 +0000 https://coloradosun.com/?p=483680 Author Meg Wingerter's sweeping novel "The Silence that Remains," begins with one woman's journey seeking information about a fraught family history in Stalin's Russia.]]> 483680 https://coloradosun.com/2026/04/26/sunlit-hands-pardeep-toor/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:15:00 +0000 https://coloradosun.com/?p=482223 In the opening story of his collection "Hands," Pardeep Toor follows two young immigrant men from India as they struggle to navigate high school and its baffling cultural norms.]]> 482223 https://coloradosun.com/2026/04/19/sunlit-a-tree-with-my-name-on-it-victress-hitchcock/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:15:00 +0000 https://coloradosun.com/?p=481977 In this excerpt from "A Tree with My Name on It," Victress Hitchcock describes the tour of the ranch near the Wet Mountains that led her to cast doubt aside and "do something different."]]> 481977