I had a really hard time with the premise of this book. It is about Ben and Hattie Darling, who have built a nice life for themselves. Then Ben dies unexpectedly and Hattie is left to pick up the pieces, but something does not add up and she goes to search out Ben's traveling salesman lifesytle and finds another family in connecticut. The fact that she rents a room from the other wife and then becomes friends with her - all without telling the other wife who she really is is very strange to me. The ending is even more bizarre. This is the first novel in Karen Blomain's planned Fenston Trilogy. For an update on the characters, read The Season of Lost Children, which is the second novel. Sadly, when Karen passed away in 2012 the third book in the planned trilogy was unfinished. A Trick of Light and The Season of Lost Children each can be read as stand-alone novels, but reading both deepens the experience of the characters and storytelling. The planned third novel was going to center on the third of three best friends. How do I know this? I am the publisher of The Season of Lost Children, and was going to publish the third book when it was finished. I was going to republish A Trick of Light, too, but its original publisher sold the rights to Amazon.
What do You think about Trick Of Light, A (2011)?
An interesting idea but my interest began to diminish about 3/4 of the way through.
—Dfay414
