“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both” – Robert Frost
Everyone has a moment- a defining moment in life where there are two paths, two options for how life will go, and you have to choose just one. For some this is encountered in deciding practical things such as which college to go to, what to major in, which job offer to take. For others it involves love and the person you end up spending your life with. Or maybe it’s both. Maybe you have a lot of moments you forever look back on and wonder, “where would I be if…”
The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo is a story full of individuals making decisions that affect the course of their lives. Lucy is an ambitious, smart woman who falls in love, twice. She falls in love first with a boy she meets in college. They are young and full of life. Their love is passionate and raw. Their love is something that she is never able to fully move on from. Their love also breaks her more than once and eventually, this love leaves her. She goes on to find another love a little later in life. This love is more practical, more reliable and in many ways makes more sense. This love is mature and safe. Readers follow Lucy as she grows from a college girl, in love, to a full time working mom, also in love, and listen as she recounts all of the decisions that she makes and their consequences.
The novel captured my attention very quickly. I am a sucker for a good love story- and in this book there are two. Although Lucy alludes to a not so happy ending more than once, I did hold out hope that she would end up finding her way back to her true love. I’ll leave it up to you to decide who you think that is. The Light We Lost is definitely worth a read.
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