This book opens like the first morning light that eases the burden of the night sky. Subtly the light increases and the world begins to turn. Gently our naive but perceptive narrator awakens and begins to decipher the world--and her potential place in it. And by proxy, she seeks to find out where we all belong. In this vaguely future world are we abdicating our humanity. Is religion to be abandoned whole cloth or is the yearning a necessary part of who we are. Are we never more human than when we seek answers. Is it our lot to find our own way -- a job we used to outsource to God. Is it just simple compassion that makes the sun arc across the sky. Sweet without being saccharine, touching without being manipulative--there is a scene of such desperate longing that it literally look my breath away--I had to put the book down. This book is a miracle of simple narration crafted to be both poetic and dreamlike with an ending that is beautiful, heartbreaking and necessary.