Sanctuary

Thirteen-year-old Miles Jensen walks three thousand miles north through a collapsed world to reach a home he no longer recognizes.

When a solar storm burned out every circuit on Earth, the world stopped in an afternoon: planes down, grids dark, borders hardening. Miles was in Costa Rica with his mother when it happened, and she did not survive that afternoon. Eight months later, a letter arrives, hand-carried three thousand miles by strangers. His grandparents are alive on their farm outside Oshkosh. His sister is alive. Come home. We're waiting. No planes are flying. No one is coming for him. So Miles begins to walk.

Sanctuary is a debut novel about migration told in reverse, an American child moving north toward a country sliding into something it refuses to name. It asks what the word means when every door is closed, and who is permitted to walk through the ones that open.

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Short bio. Daniel Pandiyan writes literary fiction and makes visual art. He immigrated to the United States more than twenty years ago and lives in Chicago with his family. Sanctuary is his first novel.

Long bio. Daniel Pandiyan immigrated to the United States more than twenty years ago. He is a technologist and an amateur artist whose reading runs to world cultures, religions, philosophy, and art. He lives in Chicago with his family. Sanctuary is his first novel; his second, The Aurelien Protocol, arrives in 2027. His artwork and journal can be found at danielpandiyan.com.