Cover: "Full Moon in Miyako"
Miyako Redux
2026, MPK Books
Miyako Redux is the second book in the Glow Trilogy, following Proxima’s Gift, both of which take place in Japan several hundred years in the future after an apocalyptic event has killed most of the global population. In the first book we met the Children of Proxima, a community of people who have developed a new organ in the bodies that gives them the true sense of empathy, a gift they call the Glow. They live in utopian hamlets known as Hahanokuni, the Motherland. The story, which takes place over the course of a single year, focuses on a young woman named Azami who is struggling to control her overly powerful glow.
In Miyako Redux, the scene shifts to Miyako, a large town populated by Dims—surviving humans who have not developed the glow. The story, which takes place over the course of a single month, is a complex tale involving multiple people’s storylines that weave together over the course of the book. There is a community of creative artisans who have developed a collective social network in the east of Miyako, led by the kindly grandfather-figure, Noah. Goro, a savage warlord and his people who occupy the ancient castle of the town and rule their surroundings by force. The Medusaites, a cult of impoverished newcomers who worship the creature in the Tower of Light as a mystical deity, led by the charismatic monk, Keizen. And of course, Azami and Choga who make their way from Hahanokuni to Miyako to seek out the Whitewoman who was responsible for both of their mothers’ disappearance, only to get caught up in the power machinations taking place there. Over the course of the story, all of these people get inexorably drawn to the Tower of Light, which lies at the heart of each of their destinies.
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