A review by bravelass85
House Lights by Leah Hager Cohen

4.0

I appreciate a well-written book, and this certainly is one. This is a good story about family dynamics, told from the vantage of time as a woman looks back on her 20th year when everything fell apart and she launched into what would become her adult life. I won’t say more than that because I think walking in blind on this book is the only way to go. Don’t read anything about the plot - not even the jacket - before reading it. It’s motifs of the theatre and what it is to act and the crumbling of the house are all powerful in this book and the characters are rich and messy. I couldn’t put it down.