Lolo's Light

This is a truth about growing up. Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesnt happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad. For Millie, its something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors infant daughter, dies unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably, on the night Millie babysits. Its not Millies fault. Theres nothing she could have done. And theres nothing she can do now. So how does she go on? She does what youll do. She finds her way. This poignant and profound coming-of-age story portrays a tragic experience of responsibility and its poisonous flip side: guilt. Emotional, powerful, and important, this is an honest and empathetic portrait of a girl at her most vulnerablea mess of grief, love, and ultimately, acceptancewho must reckon with those most difficult of demons: death . . . and life.