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Faith in Fiction: City of Tranquil Light by Bo Caldwell

Faith in Fiction will meet on Monday, May 18th to discuss City of Tranquil Light by Bo Caldwell. We will discuss the full book at this date, but please come even if you haven’t finished reading it! You can also pick up a copy of July’s book at this meeting, provided by Louisville Free Public Library’s Discussion Kit.

Location - 803 Cattleya Ct. Louisville, KY 40207

“Will Kiehn is seemingly destined for life as a humble farmer in the Midwest when, having felt a call from God, he travels to the vast North China Plain in the early twentieth-century. There he is surprised by love and weds a strong and determined fellow missionary, Katherine. They soon find themselves witnesses to the crumbling of a more than two-thousand-year-old dynasty that plunges the country into decades of civil war. As the couple works to improve the lives of the people of Kuang P'ing Ch'eng― City of Tranquil Light, a place they come to love―and face incredible hardship, will their faith and relationship be enough to sustain them?

Told through Will and Katherine's alternating viewpoints―and inspired by the lives of the author's maternal grandparents―City of Tranquil Light is a tender and elegiac portrait of a young marriage set against the backdrop of the shifting face of a beautiful but torn nation. A deeply spiritual book, it shows how those who work to teach others often have the most to learn, and is further evidence that Bo Caldwell writes ‘vividly and with great historical perspective’ (San Jose Mercury News).” — St. Martin's Griffin

Our book discussions aim to equip each member to read and interpret novels thoughtfully from a Christian perspective, and to learn to discuss challenging content graciously.

Mark your calendar for upcoming books:

Earlier Event: March 16
Faith in Fiction: Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston
Later Event: July 20
Faith in Fiction: The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis