The Rest of the Week

A vanished flight. A hidden island. Six remarkable children raised beyond the edges of civilization step into the modern world and quietly unsettle it. Headlines multiply, cameras swarm, and a chorus of testimonies and hearings asks the same disarming question: are these children angels, or a mirror held up to our own potential. Told through an ambassador's field notes and the creator who loved them, The Children of Sunday follows Monday through Saturday across borders and into the rooms where power, faith, and reason try to name what they do not yet understand. What emerges is not a spectacle, but a gentle revolution of attention, in gardens and schools and city squares, where small acts change the temperature of a room. This is a story about how we listen, how we see one another, and how creation becomes a language that anyone can learn. Without giving away its turns, the book invites a simple truth with profound consequences: we become what we create. The Children of Sunday is moving, thoughtful, and quietly bold, a portrait of connection, responsibility, and hope that lingers long after the last page. A New York Times Best Seller.