Book cover for Picture Us In The Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert

Picture Us In The Light

2018 Released
338 Pages
7-8 Hours
★ 4.09 4,511 ratings
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Little, Brown Books for Young ReadersISBN 9781484735282

"Picture me madly in love with this moving, tender, unapologetically honest book." —Becky Albertalli, #1 best-selling author of Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Danny Cheng has always known his parents have secrets. But when he discovers a taped-up box in his father's closet filled with old letters and a file on a powerful Bay Area family, he realizes there's much more to his family's past than he ever imagined. Danny has been an artist for as long as he can remember and it seems his path is set, with a scholarship to RISD and his family's blessing to pursue the career he's always dreamed of. Still, contemplating a future without his best friend, Harry Wong, by his side makes Danny feel a panic he can barely put into words. Harry's and Danny's lives are deeply intertwined and as they approach the one-year anniversary of a tragedy that shook their friend group to its core, Danny can't stop asking himself if Harry is truly in love with his girlfriend, Regina Chan. When Danny digs deeper into his parents' past, he uncovers a secret that disturbs the foundations of his family history and the carefully constructed facade his parents have maintained begins to crumble. With everything he loves in danger of being stripped away, Danny must face the ghosts of the past in order to build a future that belongs to him in this complex, lyrical novel.

Kelly Loy Gilbert

Kelly Loy Gilbert is the author of Picture Us in the Light, a Stonewall Honor Book and LA Times Book Prize finalist; Conviction, a Morris Award finalist; and, most recently, Everyone Wants to Know. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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