Sunlight Finds You by Laura Moriarty — a richly layered love story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Chaperone.
It’s 1949, early in the Cold War, but St. Petersburg, Florida is warm, lush, and full of possibility. For seventeen-year-old Nora, the move south feels like paradise — especially after she meets Leonard, the shy, brilliant son of transplanted New Yorkers. In her company he grows more confident; in his, she finds a depth of feeling she has never known.
Leonard’s mother is welcoming, but his father is wary of Nora’s working-class family. When that suspicion forces them apart, Nora makes a desperate choice that changes the course of her life. Exiled from the people she loves, she sets in motion a chain of secrets and betrayals that will follow her into adulthood.
Told with compassion and quiet power, Sunlight Finds You is a novel about first love, the weight of family expectations, and the long work of forgiveness — of others and of ourselves. It is about refusing to settle for a life that is less than full.
A propulsive, emotionally rich story that will stay with readers long after the final page.
A Read With Jenna pick
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