About this ebook
A Boston Globe Bestseller
"Simply—gorgeous." —Los Angeles Times
Late in her twentieth year, Beatrice mails a letter on the sly, sparking events that will change her life forever. The addressee is her grandmother, a legendary stage actress long estranged from her daughter, Bea’s mother. Though Bea wants to become an actress herself, it is the desire to understand the old family rift that drives her to work her way into her grandmother’s graces.
But just as she establishes a precarious foothold in her grandmother’s world, Bea’s elite Boston home life begins to crumble. Her beloved father is accused of harassment by one of his graduate students; her usually serene, self-certain mother shows signs of fallibility. And Bea is falling in love with someone many would consider inappropriate.
Powerfully written and psychologically intricate, House Lights illuminates the corrosive power of family secrets, and the redemptive struggle to find truth, forgiveness, and love.
About the author
Leah Hager Cohen has written six novels and five works of nonfiction, including Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World, and the novels Strangers and Cousins, House Lights, and No Book but the World. She is the Barrett Professor of Creative Writing at the College of the Holy Cross.
