A sparse novel about the desire to be independent and the struggle to remain connected that we all experience when we leave home. The switch in narration in the second and third sections pulled me out of the story a bit but served to highlight the growing distance between mother and daughter.
Blue Light Hours by Bruna Dantas Lobato, (List Price: $17, Grove Press, Black Cat, 9780802163776, October 2024)
Reviewed by Melissa Taylor, E. Shaver Bookseller in Savannah, Georgia