Award-Winning Debut Novel Blends Dark Humor and Familial Bonds Against the Backdrop of a Crumbling Industry
Former filmmaker and producer Penny McCann Pennington’s first novel, ‘It Burns a Lovely Light’ is fiction at its sharpest and most effective. At its center is a Pittsburgh still stumbling from the loss of its formidable steel industry, and a family coping with tragedies both great and small. By turns heartrending, poignant and wildly funny, ‘It Burns a Lovely Light’ is, above all, a stirring portrait of a young woman regaining her life.
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