The Light on Horn Island (Revell 2024) by Valerie Fraser Luesse is a gently comforting book, merging the familiar and the whimsical to shape Edie Gardner’s path to healing and discovery in the small coastal town where she once spent her summers. She now returns to stay with her grandmother, Adele “Punk” Cheramie, and the […]
“Letters from My Sister” by Valerie Fraser Luesse
July 1, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Two families – one white, one black – both devoted to the land they’ve farmed together and to one another. Two brothers – one a loyal suitor, one a philanderer. Two sisters – one a refined Southern beauty, one a tree-climbing nonconformist. Stir into the mix a handsome stranger restoring a nearby farm to its […]

