So when her husband is offered the opportunity to help his brother run the family funeral home in the big city of Philadelphia, they jump at the chance to leave their sleepy farm town and create a new beginning.
The novel opens with heartbreak: A mother, Pauline, is reeling from the sudden death of her infant son. Such is the case with As Bright as Heaven, a stunning and intimate family saga that follows the lives of the Bright family women against the backdrop of World War I-era Philadelphia during the little-known Spanish flu pandemic that took thousands of American lives.
I love when a book makes me experience such powerful and raw emotions that, days after turning the last page, I find myself still completely immersed in that world.
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