I have enjoyed reading works by Roxane Gay before. However, I was unfamiliar with her short story "We are the Sacrifice of Darkness," so I didn't have any notion of the plot before reading this. The story began in a confusing manner for me: a miner who took a starship into the sun, and it was extinguished. The town (and one assumes the world) was put into eternal darkness. That part of the story is not visited in great depth-- the novel jumps back and forth between the father and the son as well as the woman in their lives who they love and their interactions with each other and those in the town. What does jump out in the story are the deep concepts of love and blame and identity and overcoming metaphorical and literal darkness to find joy and light. The graphic design by Tracy Lynne Oliver is beautiful in muted tones, but they are not an aside. In parts the subtly changes from light to dark to mirror themes in the book in ways that enhance the story as graphic novels should. This story may be geared more for an adult crowd simply because the action is minimal, but the topics are accessible for an older teen audience as well. Thank you to #NetGally and the publishers for the advanced copy of this book.

One day Joshua's father takes an airship and flies it into the sun causing the sun to go dark. As the sun shows no signs of returning, people take out their anger on Joshua and his mother. Joshua eventually marries his best friend and searches for a way to end the darkness.