Sunlight Finds You: A Read With Jenna Book Club Pick, as featured on Today

Plt;bPgt;A compulsive love story from a Plt;iPgt;New York TimesPlt;/iPgt; bestselling author that spins on the consequence of lies and our capacity for resilience.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;iPgt;P#8216;A cancel-your-plans, hold-your-breath, call-your-best-friend kind of book.P#8217; Plt;/iPgt;Amy Jo BurnsPlt;/bPgt;

A forbidden love blows open the world of a young woman, altering the trajectory of her life.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Postwar America is a time of rigid social rules. But when effervescent, seventeen-year-old Nora moves to Florida, she finds paradiseP#8212;especially after she meets and wins over shy, brilliant Leonard. His mother is welcoming, but his father is suspicious of Nora and her lower-class family.Plt;brPgt; Plt;brPgt;When coerced into breaking off all contact with Leonard, Nora makes a decision that exiles her from the family she loves, and sets off a chain of secrets and betrayals that will follow her for years.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Laura MoriartyP#8217;s Plt;iPgt;Sunlight Finds YouPlt;/iPgt; explores ideas about family, female desire, sexism, motherhood and prejudice. ItP#8217;s about our capacity to forgiveP#8212;ourselves and othersP#8212;and about finding happiness by refusing to settle for a life that is less than full.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;A compelling and warm-hearted love story for readers of Anne PatchettP#8217;s Plt;iPgt;Tom LakePlt;/iPgt; and Patrick RyanP#8217;s Plt;iPgt;BuckeyePlt;/iPgt;.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;P#39;Perfectly captures the joy and exquisite pain of first love, and the sacrifices that change our lives forever. I adored it.P#39; Plt;bPgt;Toni JordanPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt;P#8216;The perfect summer read... Propulsive and drenched in light, just like the title.P#8217;Plt;iPgt; Plt;/iPgt;Plt;bPgt;Jenna Bush HagerPlt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt;P#8216;The kind of book that makes you lean closer, then hold your breath as the beauty and betrayal unfold. I couldnP#8217;t stop reading. I couldnP#8217;t stop hoping. What an extraordinary novel!P#8217; Plt;bPgt;Ariel LawhonPlt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;P#8216;Radiant...What begins as a teenage romance in 1950s Florida becomes an intimate, deeply moving story of separation, sacrifice, and self-determinationP#8212;and of how early love shapes the lives we carry forward.P#8217; Plt;bPgt;Christina Baker KlinePlt;/bPgt;