“Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, even though grave issues are at stake, [is] a hopeful story. But there are people out there that feel that books that have hopeful themes are trivial, they’re not serious literature, and so I expect that [my book] will also be recieved in that light by some people…I think that kind literature can and has been written, even by people like Evelyn Waugh and Flannery O’Connor,” says T. M. Doran, author of Toward the Gleam.