Lisa's Reviews > That Night

Erin, I know this isn't your usual style but I think you'd enjoy it. It's short, gripping, and extremely well written. The action (boy meets girl, boy looses girl) is narrated by a neighbor girl who is 10 on That Night, and the picture of childhood through her eyes reminds me a little of Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine. But the narrator also gives us glimpses of her grown-up life and how things turned out for her family and other families in their neighborhood. The book is full of reflections on what it means to love, what lasts, what matters, mothering, and romance. I love the way That Night is woven through the whole book, yet the author managed to gracefully unfold the before, after, and during so skillfully. Great story, well written, I recommend it.