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Where The Light Shines In
- Author
- Jenny Mattern
- Narrator
- Cat Protano
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 29 September 2026
- Run Time
- 5 hours 18 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
"If there’s one thing my thirteen years of life have taught me, it's that having parents who love you doesn't erase the somebody else who brought you into the world."
Despite being adopted into a loving family, thirteen-year-old Gloria feels as if her life is a bit too much like the crossword puzzles she and her dad enjoy solving together: too many empty spaces and not enough clues.
For as long as she can remember, Gloria has studied the faces of random women in the hopes of finding her birth mother. But when she finally lands on the perfect candidate, it's in a place she never could have expected—an obituary photo. Determined to learn more about this dead woman who looks just like her, Gloria embarks on a secret mission to fill in the gaps of her origin story.
At first, finding answers about her past feels exactly right. But as the lies Gloria tells keep piling up, and as each step toward her biological family takes her farther from the parents who have loved her forever, she starts to wonder if she'll ever be able to fill her empty spaces. Because how can you feel truly whole when you're shattering from the inside out?
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Details
- Author
- Jenny Mattern
- Narrator
- Cat Protano
- Duration
- 5 hours 18 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 September 2026
- ISBN
- 9798318535321
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Death and bereavement
Synopsis
"If there’s one thing my thirteen years of life have taught me, it's that having parents who love you doesn't erase the somebody else who brought you into the world."Despite being adopted into a loving family, thirteen-year-old Gloria feels as if her life is a bit too much like the crossword puzzles she and her dad enjoy solving together: too many empty spaces and not enough clues.For as long as she can remember, Gloria has studied the faces of random women in the hopes of finding her birth mother. But when she finally lands on the perfect candidate, it's in a place she never could have expected—an obituary photo. Determined to learn more about this dead woman who looks just like her, Gloria embarks on a secret mission to fill in the gaps of her origin story.At first, finding answers about her past feels exactly right. But as the lies Gloria tells keep piling up, and as each step toward her biological family takes her farther from the parents who have loved her forever, she starts to wonder if she'll ever be able to fill her empty spaces. Because how can you feel truly whole when you're shattering from the inside out?
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