From the Christy Award-winning Author of Levi's Will
"You never know what the day will bring..."
Mick Brannigan, a construction worker, loses a good-paying job
because of some freak accident, sort of his fault but not his
fault. Adding insult to injury, he finds himself playing nursemaid
to his three kids.
"Mick's whole life felt like an accident..."
Even more flustered is his wife, Layne, now forced to get a job to
keep a paycheck coming in. Mick isn't the stay-at-home-dad type,
she's sure. He's a good dad--when she is there to supervise it
all...the unrelenting daily stuff. Keeping the house clean, food in
the fridge. Attacking the ever-mounting laundry. Supervising their
five acres of land and the menagerie of animals....
"It wasn't his idea to stay home with the kids..."
A lot is on the line, and just how the Brannigan family will
survive--that is, without anyone getting seriously hurt or killed,
the kids not ending up psychologically and emotionally damaged, the
laundry not undoing their marriage--all remains to be
seen....
Packed with humor, true-to-life characters, and themes to enlighten
the soul, Summer of Light is altogether poignant, witty,
entertaining, and delightfully down-to-earth.
W. Dale Cramer, author of critically acclaimed novels Bad Ground and Levi's Will, lives in McDonough, Georgia, with his wife, Pam, and their two sons.