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His wife and daughter’s troubled relationship is the novel’s pole star: “Flashlight” is less about the absent Serk than the omnipresent, annoying Anne.

You can identify the pole star by looking directly north and locating a star that hangs distinctly by itself.

She was, he said, so “unvarying in her pole star radiance that we have perhaps been lulled into thinking that she might be in some way eternal.”

He described her as so "unvarying in her pole star radiance that we have perhaps been lulled into thinking that she might be in some way eternal."

“Instead of leading us at the front of the pack, he will now lead us as our guiding pole star as we press forward in the realization of his dream.”