Syzygy

In the autumn of 1968, on the rain-slicked steps of Sproul Hall, Joshua Renner and Miriam Aldous find each other in the middle of a generation trying to remake the world. What neither of them expects is that their own love will become the deepest remaking of all. Across more than fifty years, spanning a war that nearly takes Joshua from her, a Tibetan lama's mountainside retreat, a shared awakening neither of them saw coming, and a farmhouse kitchen table that quietly opens its door to a wildfire, a pandemic, and anyone who simply needs a place to sit, Joshua and Miriam build a marriage that becomes something larger than either of them: a life spent giving away, again and again, the very thing that changed them. Grounded in real history and drawing on Gnostic and Buddhist wisdom traditions, Syzygy is a sweeping, tender novel about what it actually looks like when two ordinary people take enlightenment seriously, not as a single transcendent moment but as five decades of showing up, staying present, and loving anyone who walks through the door. Give. Live. Love. Three words, one marriage, and a lifetime spent finding out how far they can reach.