![]() ![]() Following on the heels of this intensely personal experience of Death comes an invitation to move to Philadelphia, for Pauline’s husband Thomas to learn the business of and take over his bachelor Uncle Fred’s mortuary. When the book opens, Pauline has just lost her infant son, brother to fifteen year-old Evie, twelve year-old Maggie, and six year-old Willa. ![]() ![]() The events of the book span eight years during which each of the girls grows up-both by the simple circumstance of time passing as well as the events of life-including the Great War and the Spanish Flu-that force them to mature more quickly than they might have otherwise. How does this knowledge that we are mortal affect our choices? The risks we take? The risks we don’t?Īs Bright as Heaven goes back and forth in its narrators, moving between the perspectives of Pauline Bright and her three daughters. If our days were not numbered, we probably wouldn’t care how we spent them. ![]() Interestingly enough, it is our mortality that gives our existence its value and beauty. Our lives will one day end, and most of us never know when. Death comes for us all in one way or another. ![]()
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