So many books come out each week that it makes it hard to decide what to read. We want to make that a little bit easier on you by sharing our favorite releases from the week and telling you our top 3 reasons why we think you’ll love them too!
This week one of our selections is How to Be Luminous by Harriet Reuter Hapgood. Are you ready to hear more about this book and its author? Here we go…
How to Be Luminous by Harriet Reuter Hapgood
Published by Roaring Brook Press on 4/30/2019
Genres: Contemporary
Pages: 336
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When seventeen-year-old Minnie Sloe's mother disappears, so does her ability to see color. How can young artist Minnie create when all she sees is black-and-white?
Middle child Minnie and her two sisters have always been able to get through anything together: growing up without fathers, living the eccentric artist lifestyle, and riding out their mother's mental highs and lows. But when they lose their mother, Minnie wonders if she could lose everything: her family, her future, her first love . . . and maybe even her mind.
3 Reasons You Should Read…
How to Be Luminous
by Harriet Reuter Hapgood
- After reading The Square Root of Summer, we were so excited to book up a copy of this one. The two books aren’t really anything alike, but Hapgood continues to impress us with her writing style and pacing.
- Teens are flawed, which means that YA books should also contain characters that are flawed. Minnie and her sisters are just that. They are all dealing with their grief and loss in different ways and we really loved the realism in that.
- If you’re looking for a beautiful depiction of grief, a YA contemporary that’s full of emotional highs and lows – then How to Be Luminous should be on your list.
About Harriet Reuter Hapgood
Harriet Reuter Hapgood is the author of THE SQUARE ROOT OF SUMMER and HOW TO BE LUMINOUS. Her first-ever professional writing credit was for Just Seventeen magazine, and she's been YA-obsessed ever since. She likes burritos, cats, Gwyneth Paltrow and young adult fiction, which she plans to write more of, though she's also considering a PhD in Dawson’s Creek. Her surname is Reuter Hapgood, not Hapgood, and she will go ahead and realphabetise her books in your home or bookshop if you file her under H.
