T. Cole Rachel

Nighttime Kingdom

It was my absolute pleasure to write the foreword for Nighttime Kingdom, the debut novel by artist William J. O’Brien. A beautiful book, inside and out. Find out more about the book and order a copy HERE.

From the foreword by T. Cole Rachel:
“Nighttime Kingdom is many things — a coming-of-age tale, a document of loss, a treatise on the lifelong imprints of trauma, a love story — but in the end, it’s much more than that. The characters here remind us that even though tragedy can break us, it can also be transformative in ways we don’t expect — it can be the jet fuel that propels us into a different (hopefully better) kind of life, it can be the catalyst for making us stronger and (again, hopefully) more empathetic, more fully realized, and truly loving creatures.”