The Lightkeeper's Daughters
The
Lightkeeper’s Daughters, by Jean E. Pendziwol, is a novel set on Lake Superior.
It is an affecting story of family, identity, and art, that involves a
decades-old mystery.
Elizabeth’s eyes
have failed. She can no longer read the books she loves or see the paintings
that move her spirit, but her mind remains sharp and music fills the vacancy
left by her blindness. When her father’s journals are discovered after an
accident, she enlists the assistance of a delinquent teenager, Morgan, who is
completing community service at the retirement home where Elizabeth lives, and
together they read the musty books.
An unlikely relationship develops between
the two women as they are drawn into the words of the Porphyry Island
light-keeper penned more than 70 years ago. In the process, they discover
they are both connected to the isolated island, their lives touched by
Elizabeth’s enigmatic twin sister Emily and the beautiful but harsh Lake Superior
environment.
But for Elizabeth, the faded pages of her father’s journals hold
more secrets than she anticipates and threaten the very core of who she is.
Jean E. Pendziwol,
award winning author of Once Upon a Northern Night and No
Dragons for Tea, will be launching her debut adult novel The
Lightkeeper’s Daughters on Thursday July 6th from 7-9pm at
the Sleeping Giant Brewery. She will also be at Chapters on July 8, 1 – 4 p.m.
Jean E. Pendziwol
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