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Matthew Vollmer, Author<\/em><\/h4>\n

\"\"Matthew Vollmer had a draft of a memoir written when his mother died and strange lights began appearing at the home she had shared with his father. \u201cThe lights were a conundrum, a mystery, an inexplicable phenomenon, but they were also an occasion for us to connect, and for me to try to understand how he was attempting to interpret what he\u2019d been seeing,\u201d Vollmer says of his father.<\/p>\n

In the book, Vollmer also considers Seventh-day Adventism\u2014his own disconnection from and longing for the comforts of religion, and the conclusions that faith leads his father to make about the lights.<\/p>\n

Vollmer hopes that readers find it comforting. \u201cOnce my mother had slipped from the world, it seemed that, even though she was no longer anywhere, she was also everywhere,\u201d he says. \u201cEvery instance of natural beauty\u2014a bird at a feeder, a cloud gilded with golden sunlight, autumn leaves burning bright, fresh flowers in a vase\u2014seemed to testify to the fact that one of the reasons that I could recognize and appreciate beauty in the world was because of her.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of Us Together in the End, April, 2023, memoir, softcover, $16.95, by Matthew Vollmer, and published by Hub City Press, Spartanburg, SC. Vollmer will appear Monday, May 22, at Malaprop\u2019s Bookstore\/Caf\u00e9. Learn more at MatthewVollmer.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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