January Book Club: A Bend of Light
Our January book club will meet on zoom on Sunday, January 22, at 2 p.m. We’ll be discussing Joy Jordan-Lake’s A Bend of Light. Publisher’s description: A quiet coastal village in post–World War II America is shaken when the secrets of the past and present collide in a riveting novel by the bestselling author of Under a Gilded Moon.
Five years after the war, Amie Stilwell, a photo interpreter for an Allied unit in England, returns to her hometown in Maine. Jobless and discouraged but stubbornly resourceful, she’s starting over in the same coastal village where her life once went so wrong. Waiting for her is Shibby Travis, the surrogate mother with whom Amie never lost touch. But the unexpected also awaits…