Where the Light Is Brighter : Christmas Lake Press : 9781960865014 : 1960865013 : 17 May 2023 : Where the Light Is Brighter is the touching, bittersweet story of life in a long-term care facility, told mostly through the sharp eyes of 98-year-old Edith, who has an opinion on everything-and everyone-and a lifetime of memories that are slowly slipping away. She enters River's Edge reluctantly, just before New Year's, at the insistence of her son, William, but she plans to be back home in time to put chubby Cupid on her mantel, then swap him out in March for her madly grinning leprechaun. As we accompany Edith through her first year of living in this "never place," the place on the hill where no one wants to be, we meet a cast of characters of advancing age. But despite her dread of the darkness within-a fear we all share about our elderly futures-brightness breaks through at every turn. The story is structured around holidays and the decorations with which the River's Edge residents mark