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From the acclaimed author of The Art of Fielding comes a deeply felt story of friendship, art, love and grief, following two young women on the brink of irrevocable change. At 27, Pella’s life looks settled: she’s a recent college grad, engaged to Mike, her longtime boyfriend, and helping her friend Owen pull off his own destination wedding on Block Island. But over that wild wedding weekend, Pella’s past and present collide spectacularly, blowing up her plans and sending her spiralling toward an unplanned future in New York City.
Meanwhile, back at Westish College, her best friend Irma’s involvement with a politically charged prank – one that has roiled both the campus and the world beyond – threatens to derail her brilliant future. As Irma and Pella fumble their way out of sleepy Westish College and into adulthood, they find themselves greeted by a world of possibility that will upend their friendship and everything they thought they understood. The Brightness captures that specific, shimmering anxiety of your twenties when life still feels wide open, even as hard and irreversible choices start closing in.
HARDBACK
ISBN 9780008536862
From the acclaimed author of The Art of Fielding comes a deeply felt story of friendship, art, love and grief, following two young women on the brink of irrevocable change. At 27, Pella’s life looks settled: she’s a recent college grad, engaged to Mike, her longtime boyfriend, and helping her friend Owen pull off his own destination wedding on Block Island. But over that wild wedding weekend, Pella’s past and present collide spectacularly, blowing up her plans and sending her spiralling toward an unplanned future in New York City.
Meanwhile, back at Westish College, her best friend Irma’s involvement with a politically charged prank – one that has roiled both the campus and the world beyond – threatens to derail her brilliant future. As Irma and Pella fumble their way out of sleepy Westish College and into adulthood, they find themselves greeted by a world of possibility that will upend their friendship and everything they thought they understood. The Brightness captures that specific, shimmering anxiety of your twenties when life still feels wide open, even as hard and irreversible choices start closing in.
HARDBACK
ISBN 9780008536862
