Binding: Paperback
Description: Marisa de los Santos returns to the world of her beloved bestselling novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me in an enthralling tale of sisterhood sacrifice and the enduring power of love. Bring me the Northern Lights. Cornelia Brown is reeling from a terrifying act of violence when she gets word that her mother has been badly injured in an accident. Cornelia returns to Virginia to the house she grew up in and in the weeks that follow she watches her mother Ellie struggle to recover fluctuating between her usual crisp can - do clarity and periods of delirium during which she seems haunted by a devastating loss from her past. In grief - stricken tones Ellie begs Cornelia to bring her the Northern Lights and despite her confusion at this mysterious plea Cornelia vows to do so: She was my mother and she wanted the Northern Lights; I was her daughter and would have given her anything anything. With the help of her prickly sister Ollie Cornelia embarks on a mission to piece together the lost years of their mother's life: people places and events spanning Ellie's late teens through her mid - twenties. Cornelia and Ollie's quest takes them to unexpected places and into the worlds of strangers whose lives Ellie touched and irrevocably changed. As the sisters uncover truths about their mother's life some beautiful some ugly some tragic Cornelia herself begins to heal to forgive herself and to find her way back home. Alternating between two timelines Cornelia's story in the present and that of the young Eleanor Campbell in the 1960s Watch Us Shine explores the complicated bonds between sisters the impossible demands of motherhood and the power of human love to save us again and again.
Title: Watch Us Shine A Novel
Author(s): Santos Marisa De Los
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063322783
Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/5/2023