Illumination Night By Alice Hoffman

A modern chronicle of a marriage and a bittersweet exploration of an extraordinary passion from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic. Beginning on the night of the Grand Illumination a festival of lanterns held each summer on Marthas Vineyard Illumination Night follows the lives of a young blond giant who is as beautiful as he is frightening an old woman at the end of her life whose last mission is to save her granddaughters soul a family torn apart by a wifes fears