That begs us to ask the question: What a graphic retelling of this story can do to add to the conversation? Like previous graphic adaptations of “ T he Handmaid’s Tale” and “To Kill a Mockingbird ,” this visual adaptation brings forth deeper themes and layered nuance that pictures do so well.Ī central theme throughout this story is one of food. (As a side note, if you are not reading either or both of these women, now is a great time to discover them.) On its own, the text embodies that radical case for hope that you can see in feminist Rebecca Solnit’s writings (particularly Hope in the Dark), and the work of Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson in her “Letters to an American” newsletter. The prose in this story is raw, powerful, and optimistic, bringing in themes that seven years later still remain relevant. For Claire and Joshua, it’s not just the world of literal darkness that they grow up in, but the prejudice and ostracization Joshua faces as the man whose father took down the sun. For Hiram and Mara, it’s the struggles of Hiram’s work in the mines and Mara’s family disapproval of their romance.
What they both have in common is their search for light, literal and metaphorical, in the darkness that surround them. The first is in flashback of a young Hiram and his eventual wife Mara, and in the present, that of their son Joshua and local girl Claire. That event and its aftermath is secondary in this tale to the two parallel love stories. That decision brings him the comfort he needs, but leaves the world to pick up the collateral damage: a world with no sun. This young adult drama challenges notions of identity, guilt, and survival in a graphic novel for fans of On A Sunbeam and Are You Listening?īad Feminist author Roxane Gay’s short story “We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness” is the story of a miner named Hiram Hightower so consumed with the world of darkness from his work in the mines that he can only find one solution to bring light into his life: to fly into the sun. Expanding an unforgettable world where a tragic event forever bathes the world in darkness, The Sacrifice of Darkness follows one woman’s powerful journey through this new landscape as she discovers love, family, and the true light in a world seemingly robbed of any. New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay (World of Wakanda, Difficult Women) adapts her short story “We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness” as a full-length graphic novel with writer Tracy Lynne Oliver (This Weekend), and artist Rebecca Kirby (Biopsy).
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