A review by flogigyahoo
First Light by Charles Baxter

4.0

Anything written by Charles Baxter is going to be good. His first novel "First Light" is certainly that telling the story of dull Hugh and his sister, brainy Dorsey. Hugh is a car salesman, Dorsey a physicist. Sibling love is the subject of this intelligent novel. We meet brother and sister in the first chapter, Hugh father of two and his shadowy wife and Dorsey, her son Noah who is deaf and her obnoxious husband, Simon, a famous actor. The novel then does something...well, novel. Their simple, quiet, yet thought provoking story is told backwards. I wish he had elaborated more on the parents, on Hugh's wife, who is a total mystery. Still, backward to the moment of love works.