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Also by Susanna Moore:

The Lost Wife, April 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
The Life Of Objects, September 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Light Years, February 2008
Hardcover
The Big Girls, May 2007
Hardcover

LIGHT YEARS
By: Susanna Moore

A Girlhood in Hawai'i

Grove Press
February 2008
On Sale: February 18, 2008
208 pages
ISBN: 0802118623
EAN: 9780802118622
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir

New from the author of In the Cut, the luminous self- portrait of a childhood and adolescence in Hawai’i. Susanna Moore can’t remember the first time she saw the ocean—it has been there for as long as she can remember. Moore was born in Hawai’i and raised in a paradise of light and color, five days’ ship travel from the U.S. mainland. As a child she spent endless sun-speckled days in the shade of the palm trees with a bundle of books, the sound of the ocean and the calls of her brothers and sister drifting through the grove. In Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai’i, she weaves reminiscences of her childhood with some of her favorite pieces of literature—excerpts from Robinson Crusoe, Moby Dick, Treasure Island, Kon-Tiki, To the Lighthouse, and many others. Although Moore now lives in New York, the sea remains her constant companion. Light Years marks her return to the island world where she walked to school barefoot and explored love as a young girl.

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All Things Considered - June 3, 2008