Leah Hager CohenHouse LightsA Novel“Tantalizing ... captivating ... provocative.”—BooklistLate in her twentieth year, Beatrice, who dreams of a life on the stage, is confronting a home life torn asunder. She mails a letter on the sly to her grandmother, a legendary actress long estranged from the family, sparking events that will change her life forever. Powerfully written and psychologically intricate, House Lights illuminates the corrosive power of family secrets and the redemptive struggle to find truth, forgiveness, and love. “Simply—gorgeous. It’s rare to find a novel that so elevates itself in the end, that achieves an emotional resolution without a contrived tidiness and with a narrative power that seems inevitable but not predictable.”—Tara Ison, Los Angeles Times “Intelligent and searching.... Cohen writes with the scrupulousness of someone fashioning a short story, in which even the smallest details must bear their weight of significance.”—Kathryn Harrison, New York Times Book Review Leah Hager Cohen has written seven books, including Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World, and the novels Heat Lightning and Heart, You Bully, You Punk. She lives with her three children in Belmont, Massachusetts. |
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July 2008 / trade paper / ISBN 978-0-393-33272-8 |
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