A Ring of Endless Light

The second installment in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet, this novel follows Meg Murry and her brother Charles Wallace as they navigate the aftermath of their father's disappearance. While Meg remains on Earth, Charles Wallace is abducted by the alien entity IT and taken to the planet Camazotz, a world of terrifying uniformity where individuality is suppressed and time is perceived as a single, unchanging point. Meg must journey through space and time to rescue her brother, confronting the seductive logic of conformity and the chaotic, painful beauty of free will.

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