I usually try to avoid reading two of a particular author's novels in a row, but sometimes you just get in the mood to binge!
I adore the title of this book. Porch lights to me represent welcoming, safety, and sanctuary from the outside world and that is exactly what they represent here for many of the characters. When recent widow Jackie McMullen travels home to Sullivan's Island with her 10-year-old son, Charlie, the porch lights are blazing for her, literally and figuratively. Her mother, Annie Britt, long separated from Buster, Annie's father, longs for her daughter and grandson to move back home from New York to start a new life.
Jackie, an army nurse and veteran of several deployments in Afghanistan, is grieving the loss of Jimmy, her firefighter husband, and can't imagine leaving the home where they lived and raised their son, nor can she bear to leave his grave behind. As her summer visit to Sullivan's Island goes on she begins to learn that grief can be bearable with the love of family and friends and that life can actually go on after a devastating loss. You'll love this one!
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