A last request from his mentor and boss, Cristian travels to Vietnam to get answers to a name uttered over 30 years ago by a dying man. Can this journey lead Cristian to discover himself and perhaps the man fated to be by his side?
“I have one more job for you.”
Milton Glass, an award-winning photojournalist, celebrated worldwide as one of the greatest documentarians of the twentieth century, has passed. However, he leaves an unfinished task for personal assistant Cristian Orr (Butterflies I Have Known): discover the fate of a soldier’s child who’d been born and abandoned during the Vietnam War.
Cristian hesitates to get involved until an even greater mystery presents itself in the form of a name uttered over thirty years earlier by a comatose man on the other side of the world.
A name no one there could possibly know.
In an unfamiliar country and completely out of his element, Cristian must uncover the life of a man born of two cultures, accepted by neither, and the man’s connection to the whispered name.
The answers draw Cristian into a personal journey unlike anything he’s experienced before, towards a fate two lifetimes in the making.
SNik's review:
Standalone (but might be more interesting after reading Butterflies I have Known). POC representation. Hurt/comfort. Very slow burn.
Cristian’s former boss and mentor sends him on one last job, to discover the mystery behind a name uttered by a dying man more than 30 years ago. Cristian travels to Vietnam and is drawn into the history of how a pair of lives that briefly touch can cause ripples across years, causing pain, heartache, family turmoil, and anger for those that live after.
This is more a story of Cristian’s personal exploration with only a smidge of romance, where there might be such a thing as a fated person for Cristian. We don’t get to see Cristian meet “Lucas” until very late in the book, and as it was necessary for the story I would have loved to spend more time with them on page together. Gair has a way of writing an emotional and compelling story with interesting characters, great dialogue, and heartbreak that continues to be hopeful.
Snow Angels in the Dust is currently available as an e-book
Snow Angels in the Dust is currently available as an e-book
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