It is the eve of the 2004 Presidential Election, and Tyler feels incredulous rage at the possibility that George W. He makes an insufficient living singing in a bar, and his dreams of musical stardom are becoming increasingly unrealistic. Caring for Beth takes a heavy psychological toll. He is so embarrassed by his spiritual turn that he doesn’t mention it to his brother. He has been a resolute atheist since turning away from the Catholicism in which he was raised, but he decides to attend mass the next morning. He feels drawn to the conclusion that his witnessing the light was a spiritual experience of some kind. He begins to wonder what it could have been. While Barrett knows that Tyler used to take cocaine, he does not know that Tyler is still using the drug.īarrett learns that no one else witnessed the aquamarine light. Without it, he fears he will never finish his song for Beth. Tyler has another secret: he is addicted to cocaine, which he believes improves his songwriting. Although they are a close couple, both Tyler and Beth secretly wonder if they would still be together if it weren’t for Beth’s illness and the sense of shared purpose and mutual dependency which her illness provides. Beth is terminally ill with cancer of the liver. Tyler is a struggling musician, endlessly rewriting a love song for Beth, which he intends to play at their wedding. Looking up, he witnesses a “pale aqua light” hovering in the sky over his head: “He felt the light’s attention, a tingle that ran through him, a minute electrical buzz a mild and pleasing voltage that permeated him, warmed him, seemed perhaps ever so slightly to illuminate him.” Barrett hurries home to the apartment he shares with his brother, Tyler Meeks, and Tyler’s fiancée, Beth. He has just had a painful break-up, one of a long series of painful break-ups. As the novel opens, Barrett Meeks is walking home through Central Park.
Set in the gentrifying neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn, in 2004, The Snow Queen follows the closely interlinked lives of four characters as they struggle to come to terms with the terminal illness of one of their number. The Snow Queen (2014) is a novel by American novelist Michael Cunningham, best known for his 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours.
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