Amazing start...

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At first glance I was intrigued with an novel wrapped in the almost forgotten horror of the Spanish Flu. It has always been surprising to me how fast this epidemic became history within living memory. My grandmothers lived through this time and were reluctant to speak of the people they lost. I always assumed that this was due in some way to the resilience of that generation, possessing the improbable will to just continue. Perhaps they understood that looking back might somehow hinder moving forward.
So, the first paragraphs of Bright as Heaven held my reader's interest as a witness to the grief of losing a child. Knowing this child did not die of the Spanish Flu and being aware that this future menace will appear in the story held me captive. Perhaps through this story and its characters, a sense of how people survived will become clear, revealing as stories sometimes do, something more tangible than history alone.