Sunlight Finds You: A Read with Jenna Pick - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Laura MoriartyTheme:Sex & Gender/Feminine, Topical/Coming of Age, Topical/FamilyPublish date:8/4/2026Pages:464
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9781594487170ISBN-10:1594487170UPC:9781594487170Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Women, Coming of Age, Family LifeSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.50 inchesWeight:0.64Product ID:SCRN0M1ZXK
READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY "Gorgeous." --People "The perfect summer read...it is propulsive and drenched in light, just like the title." --Jenna Bush Hager "Radiant...What begins as a teenage romance in 1950s Florida becomes an intimate, deeply moving story of separation, sacrifice, and self-determination--and of how early love shapes the lives we carry forward." --Christina Baker Kline "The kind of book that makes you lean closer, then hold your breath as the beauty and betrayal unfold. I couldn't stop reading. I couldn't stop hoping. What an extraordinary novel!" --Ariel Lawhon A forbidden love blows open the world of a teenage girl, altering the trajectory of her life-from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Chaperone
It's 1949, early in the Cold War, but St. Petersburg, Florida is warm, lush, and booming with newcomers seeking sunshine and opportunity. For seventeen-year-old Nora, St. Pete feels like paradise, especially after she meets and wins over Leonard, the shy, brilliant son of transplanted New Yorkers. Nora and Leonard are soon spending balmy days and evenings together, and in her adoring, encouraging company, he grows more confident, even as he remains tender and caring. Leonard's sophisticated mother welcomes Nora into their lives, but his father distrusts her motives. When his suspicions are seemingly confirmed, Nora is forced to cut contact. In her longing and fear, she takes a chance that changes her life, exiling her from the family she loves and setting off a chain of secrets and betrayals that will follow her into adulthood. It is a mature Nora who tells the story of her turbulent past. Wiser and more worldly, she commits to an honest but compassionate account, and to a future based on trusting, first and foremost, herself.
Sunlight Finds You is, ultimately, a love story set in the past that has much to say about our present. Richly layered and propulsive, it's a book about extending forgiveness--for ourselves, and for others--and about refusing to settle for a life that is less than full.
It's 1949, early in the Cold War, but St. Petersburg, Florida is warm, lush, and booming with newcomers seeking sunshine and opportunity. For seventeen-year-old Nora, St. Pete feels like paradise, especially after she meets and wins over Leonard, the shy, brilliant son of transplanted New Yorkers. Nora and Leonard are soon spending balmy days and evenings together, and in her adoring, encouraging company, he grows more confident, even as he remains tender and caring. Leonard's sophisticated mother welcomes Nora into their lives, but his father distrusts her motives. When his suspicions are seemingly confirmed, Nora is forced to cut contact. In her longing and fear, she takes a chance that changes her life, exiling her from the family she loves and setting off a chain of secrets and betrayals that will follow her into adulthood. It is a mature Nora who tells the story of her turbulent past. Wiser and more worldly, she commits to an honest but compassionate account, and to a future based on trusting, first and foremost, herself.
Sunlight Finds You is, ultimately, a love story set in the past that has much to say about our present. Richly layered and propulsive, it's a book about extending forgiveness--for ourselves, and for others--and about refusing to settle for a life that is less than full.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9781594487170ISBN-10:1594487170UPC:9781594487170Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Women, Coming of Age, Family LifeSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.50 inchesWeight:0.64Product ID:SCRN0M1ZXK
Laura Moriarty is the author of five other novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Chaperone which was made into a feature film by the creators of Downton Abbey. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas, and is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kansas.
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