Description

Light from the Distant Star is just a gripping coming-of-age tale with a brutal killing at its center and a heroine as memorable as Harper Lee’s "Scout."It's early summer and Nellie Peck is on the edge of adolescence – gangly, awkward, saturated in issues, but acutely watchful and smarter than most of the people in her life. The individual she most admires is her father, Benjamin, a guy of great strength. His family’s century-old equipment shop is declining and Nellie’s mom has already established to return to work. Nellie’s older half sister has released a troubling look for her birth father.