Altar to an Erupting Sun

Rae Kelliher is a veteran environmental activist and pioneer in the death-with-dignity movement. Her husband Reggie calls her “party in a box” and “a weaver of people and movements.” Facing a diagnosis of terminal illness, Rae engages in a shocking suicide-murder, taking the life of an oil company CEO for his complicity in delaying responses to climate catastrophe. Seven years later, Rae’s friends and family gather at her Vermont farm to try to understand her violent exit and the rapid social transformations triggered by her desperate act.

Altar to an Erupting Sun is the debut novel of campaigner and storyteller Chuck Collins whose previous books include Born on Third Base, The Wealth Hoarders, Wealth and Our Commonwealth (with Bill Gates Sr.), and Economic Apartheid in America. Collins directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits Inequality.org.

Past and Future Easter Morning (April 9, 2023) Seven Years Later (May 5, 2030) Alix Returns (May 5, 2030) Formation Montague Farm (1973) Acres of Clams (1977) Brian Willson’ s War (1984) Accompaniment Onion Girl (1985) Dying for the Little Things (1986) The Passport and the Altar (1986) Resistance Wake Up (1987 Martyrs (1989) School of Assassins (1990) We Shall Not Be Moved (1997) Transition Passages (2006) Mutual Aid (2008) Transition Book Club 2014 FERC You (2015) Pipeline (2015) Discipleship Back to the Land (2016) Hurricane Irma-Maria (2018) Finale (2022) Reckoning Easter 2023 Rae’ s Letter Summer (2023) Reggie Summer (2024) Reggie Prison (2024) Alix May 5, 2030