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The Bright Years

Sarah Damoff · Literary Fiction

59 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

coming of agefound familytrauma recovery
coming of agefound family
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit

#10 This Month · #24 All Time

About this book

Ryan and Lillian Bright are deeply in love, recently married, and now parents to a baby girl, Georgette. But Lillian has a son she hasn’t told Ryan about, and Ryan has an alcohol addiction he hasn’t told Lillian about, so Georgette comes of age watching their marriage rise and fall. When a shocking blow scatters their fragile trio, Georgette tries to distance herself from reminders of her parents. Years later, Lillian’s son comes searching for his birth family, so Georgette must return to her roots, unearth her family’s history, and decide whether she can open up to love for them—or herself—while there’s still time. Told from three intimate points of view, ***The Bright Years*** is a tender, true-to-life novel that explores the impact of each generation in a family torn apart by tragedy but, over time, restored by the power of grace and love.

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