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Take One Candle Light a Room
A Literary Fiction Novel by Susan Straight
Subgenres:
- Family Drama,
- Domestic Fiction,
- Southern California
This book is for you if you're into...
- Family secrets surfacing during urgent cross-country searches
- Travel writers forced home by old loyalties and unfinished business
- Southern California and New Orleans settings shaping every decision
From the author of A Million Nightingales comes a luminous new novel about the forces that tear families apart and the ties that bind them together.
Fantine Antoine is a travel writer, a profession that keeps her happily away from her Southern California home. When she returns to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her closest childhood friend, Glorette, she finds herself pulled into the tumultuous life of Glorette's twenty-two-year-old son—and Fantine's godson—Victor.
After getting involved in a shooting, Victor has fled to New Orleans. Together with her father, Fantine follows Victor, determined to help him avoid the criminal future that he suddenly seems destined for. On this journey her father will reveal the wrenching secrets of his past, and Fantine will be compelled to question the most essential choices she's made in her life.
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