Big Sky — Timothy Ryan Day

One of the most violent chapters in American history is also one of the least discussed. Big Sky illuminates the events of the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 in a modern, high-paced story combining historical fiction, magical realism, and a fresh voice.

The novel follows an unsuccessful rock musician of mixed race from Chicago as he hitchhikes to his stepmother's funeral in Tulsa, Oklahoma soon after the new millennium. The story that unfolds is one of two families — one white, one black — tied together by the events of the massacre, and a grandfather who was one part Heidegger, one part Nostradamus, and one part James Baldwin.

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Praise for Big Sky

Sprawling in voice, locale, and era, Big Sky tackles the big questions, where ideology meets biology meets art meets metaphysics. All converging in history in Timothy Ryan Day's timely debut novel, with characters shaped by a century-old, true-life tragedy that may amount to the Rosetta Stone of America.

Duke HaneyAuthor

This elegant and accomplished exercise in interwoven narrative history draws fascinating parallels between literature and biology — from the butterflies of Barbara Kingsolver to tumors in The Tempest — and delivers, with surprising prescience, an entirely new way of thinking about the present.

Rachel CorbettNew York