The Light We Lost

Jill Santopolo 2017

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
love loss 9/11 choice

Our Take

Lucy and Gabe fall in love on September 11, 2001 and spend thirteen years in orbit around each other. Santopolo traces the gap between the life you planned and the one you lived, and the cost of choosing the stable option. The ending was always the ending; that does not make it less sudden.

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