

Picture Us In the Light
Author: Kelly Loy Gilbert
Narrator: James Chen
Unabridged: 11 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 07/22/2019
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Family
Author: Kelly Loy Gilbert
Narrator: James Chen
Unabridged: 11 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 07/22/2019
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Family
Kelly Loy Gilbert believes deeply in the power of stories to illuminate a shared humanity and give voice to complex, broken people. She is the author of Conviction, a William C. Morris Award finalist, Picture Us in the Light, When We Were Infinite, and Everyone Wants to Know, and lives in the Bay Area. She would be thrilled to hear from you on X (previously known as Twitter) @KellyLoyGilbert or at KellyLoyGilbert.com.
This is the best young-adult book I have read since Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, and I loved Picture Us in the Light even more than Ari and Dante. I cried for several minutes after reading the last page; I felt like my heart had been overrun by emotion in the best wa......more
every once in a while, you come across a book where it feels as if your hands are simply not strong enough to hold the immense weight of it on their own. and so your heart steps in, saying, ‘dont worry. i will carry the heaviness of this story. i will take on that burden.’ and with every beat, every......more
My heart is shredded. SHREDDED. Wow. This is a slice in the life of Danny Cheng. Danny is an Asian-American high schooler and the son of Chinese immigrants. Halfway through the book I figured this was a nice 4 star read. Danny is facing a lot of challenges in his life revolving around his parents, h......more
07/2022: I sit next to him, still touching him, without moving, and I think how strange it is that you can know someone so well and feel them threaded through your life in more ways than you can count and then still they build out these places inside themselves that they retreat to and you can't......more
He looks unruffled. Why did it feel like a lightning bolt to me, then? If I had to describe this book in one word, it would be this: disconnected. It’s well-written, with thoughtful characters, but it pulls you all over the place. At one point I thought it was exploring the grief of losing a friend,......more