Sunlight Finds You: A Read with Jenna Pick by Liane Moriarty

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Chaperone comes a luminous story of first love and the long shadows it casts.

It’s 1949, and St. Petersburg, Florida is warm, lush, and booming with newcomers chasing sunshine and second chances. For seventeen-year-old Nora, it feels like paradise—especially after she meets Leonard, the shy, brilliant son of New York transplants. In her encouraging company, he blossoms. Balmy days. Golden evenings. A love that feels like the whole world opening up.

But Leonard’s father distrusts Nora’s motives. When his suspicions seem confirmed, Nora is forced to cut contact—and in her longing and fear, she makes a choice that changes everything. What follows is a chain of secrets and betrayals that trails her into adulthood, told years later by a wiser, more worldly Nora determined to face her past with honesty and compassion.

The praise says it all:

• “Radiant…an intimate, deeply moving story of separation, sacrifice, and self-determination.” —Christina Baker Kline
• “A cancel-your-plans, hold-your-breath, call-your-best-friend kind of book.” —Amy Jo Burns
• “The kind of book that makes you lean closer, then hold your breath as the beauty and betrayal unfold. What an extraordinary novel!” —Ariel Lawhon

Richly layered and propulsive, Sunlight Finds You is ultimately about forgiveness—for ourselves and for others—and about refusing to settle for a life that’s anything less than full.

This is a book to linger over. Curl up with it on a rainy afternoon, salt air drifting in, and let the story carry you. We think you’ll want to call your best friend the moment you turn the last page.

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