Sabbathday (Novel) represented by Michael Taeckens at Massie McQuilkin & Altman
On a Shaker colony in 1870s Maine, a Civil War veteran befriends an orphan. Through the Christian exhortation to love, the veteran reflects on whether he should rejoin American society.
“How can one leave the world to find peace? Writing Sabbathday allowed me to ponder the aftermath of the last great American cleaving of race and nation: the Civil War.”
Nishant Batsha is the author of the novels A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart (ecco/HarperCollins, 2025) and Mother Ocean Father Nation (ecco/HarperCollins, 2022). Sabbathday has received support from The de Groot Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts. Nishant holds a PhD in history from Columbia University, where he was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. Originally from Northern California, he lives in Buffalo, NY with his family.
Visit Nishant’s website: www.nishantbatsha.com