Lark Ascending - Silas House, Finding Light & Hope in an Alarming Future | A Word on Words | NPT

“There's necessary violence and necessary darkness. I'm aiming for that hope and that light. To make the reader properly appreciate that hope and light, and crave it, I gotta take them through darkness.” In Lark Ascending, Silas House imagines a future that shows the inhumanity and misery this age is in danger of reaching. It is alarming, but in House's hands it is also beautiful and fascinating.