How Did That Sun Get Out

About the Book

"A bit difficult to get into at first, but things become clear as the story develops and as the young boy, C. J., matures. Well worth reading."
-Dr. Hanna Newcombe, Peace Research

"Fascinating."
-Dr. Larry Lockridge

Belonging to the first generation of collegiate students never to have experienced a time without the possibility of nuclear war, C. J., Jack, and Leah, in their sometimes assured and other times hesitant movements toward each other, are struggling in the direction of a future they have always known they may not have. Then a crisis is inadvertently brought to all three lives by a psychiatrist involved in a pursuit of definitions of global sanity. It is a crisis the psychiatrist himself comes to share and which soon begins to give voice to what had been silences central to our time. Respectfully nonviolent, this coming-of-age novel builds into an insightful and feelingly true exploration of quandaries basic to our era and ultimately touching all our lives, if only indirectly.

About the Author

Roger Burkholder was born on February 5, 1944, and has been involved with pacifistic nonviolence throughout his lifetime. As a visual artist and author, he has incorporated his nonviolent ideals into his works. His first major visual art show, Silences, opened in 1992.