When Light is Like Water

I find it apt that it was a brilliantly bright, shining day when I met Molly McCloskey. I had finished her newest novel When Light is Like Water the previous week, and had just written a review of it. On the journey to meet her I was …

When Alice stays in her mother's condo after her funeral, she is struck by a sense of anticlimax. She cannot fathom how the physical evidence of her mother's life falls short in representing its reality. All she can do is look at the…