All Is Bright: An eShort Story

Sarah Pekkanen

Dec 2010 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

AN ORIGINAL SHORT STORY FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE NOVELS THE OPPOSITE OF ME AND THE UPCOMING SKIPPING A BEAT . . .

Thirty-year-old Elise Andrews couldn’t bring herself to marry Griffin, her childhood friend turned sweetheart, so she let him walk away. Eight months after their breakup, she arrives in her hometown of Chicago on Christmas Eve and hears a voice from the past calling her name in the grocery store. It’s Griffin’s mother, Janice, who invites Elise over for a neighborhood gathering of eggnog and carols.

Walking into Janice’s house sends Elise tumbling headlong into memories of her relationship with Griffin—and with Janice, who exudes the kind of warmth Elise ached for after her own mom passed away when she was six. But Griffin has moved on, and suddenly Elise doubts her decision to give him up and lose her chance at being folded into his wonderful family. Confused and reeling, she goes in search of an answer to a universal question: How do we say good-bye to people we’ve loved without losing everything they’ve meant to us?

Heartwarming and witty, All Is Bright is a charming story about coming home for the holidays—and finding gifts in the most unexpected of places.

Ratings and reviews

The sentence structure is good - it offers a variety of styles to captivate the readers interest. The descriptions are amazing. I felt as if I were there. I am sure that this book would captivate a younger audience than myself. I take great effort to establish what life in high school is like; being in chemistry class and having everything fizzle.Definitely not my style of book.

By the cover i saw that the book would be good but then they said to put the number of the credit card. When i looked it said that it was free it is really a shame that i can not read the book.

Definitely not as fulfilling as it's counterpart "Love, Accidentally". Would have liked to heard about them meeting in LA. But still, it is fun to see the same story from a different view point.

About the author

Sarah Pekkanen is the bestselling author of The Ever After, The Opposite of Me, Skipping a Beat, These Girls, The Best of Us, Catching Air, Things You Won’t Say, and The Perfect Neighbors. Her work has been published in People, The Washington Post, and USA TODAY, among other publications. She lives with her family in Chevy Chase, Maryland.