The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff PB

Some stories feel like family. This is one of them.

Meet the Brights. Ryan and Lillian are newly married, deeply in love, and cradling their baby girl, Georgette. But love, as it turns out, doesn’t come without its secrets. Lillian has a son she’s never mentioned. Ryan carries an addiction he’s kept hidden. And little Georgette grows up watching their marriage rise and fall like the tide.

When a shocking blow scatters their fragile trio, Georgette runs from the reminders of home. Years later, Lillian’s son comes searching for his birth family—and Georgette must return to her roots. She’ll have to unearth her family’s history and decide whether she can open her heart to love, for them and for herself, while there’s still time.

One family. Four generations. A secret son. A devastating addiction. This is a Texas family saga in the truest sense—messy, tender, and impossible to put down.

Told from three intimate points of view, this nationally bestselling debut is perfect for readers of Mary Beth Keane and Claire Lombardo. It’s a story about the wounds we pass down and the grace that, given time, can mend them.

We think this one deserves a shelf-talker. Curl up with it on a rainy afternoon, salt in the air and the ocean just steps away, and let yourself linger in its pages.

A luminous, true-to-life discovery about family, forgiveness, and the pull that always draws us back to one another.

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