Review: 'Bright Burning Things,' by Lisa Harding
A probing character study with insightful perspectives on addiction and single parenthood.
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A probing character study with insightful perspectives on addiction and single parenthood.
In this novel by Irish writer Lisa Harding, a single mother who drinks oceans of wine is desperate to pull herself together lest she lose her 4-year-old son. Harding perceptively considers the burdens we place on single parents and people battling addiction.
“We look like everyone else,” Sonya Moriarty reassures herself as she, her four-year-old son Tommy and their dog, Herbie, head down to the Sandymount Strand beach on Dublin’s coastline, in the