Celestial Lights

Description

This celebrated author has written a book from a man’s point of view with incredible insight and resonance. The main character is driven by a passion for engineering. With his work ethic and diligence, he quickly excels in that career, which subverts into a drive to attain supreme heights. His other passion is the obsession with his childhood friend who represented a more earthbound and humanistic approach to life. After he receives a job offer to work in a space program, he becomes the employee of one the world’s richest and most elusive men. After he is chosen to captain an ambitious space program, he faces difficult choices. Does he choose a pinnacle of success and celebrity or the earthbound family he has always wanted? This is a wonderful theme and story relevant to today’s unending focus on wealth and celebrity. The writing is good and the story brings us to essential moral questions about ourselves.