Blue Light Hour

In Vermont, in a small ordinary dorm room, an international student from Natal, Brazil calls her mother every day. The blue light from her desk lamp and lap top screen illuminates her room as Skype invites her mother into her world, her life. An avid reader and writer since childhood, this young woman has earned a scholarship to attend a prestigious university and study her passion, literature. When she is not Skyping with her mother she attends class, works hard and slowly makes an American life for herself. Her mother is happy for her and proud too. But she is lonely, sickly and struggling to make a new existence for herself. While her only daughter, her whole heart, is far far away, speaking a language she does not understand in a cold town covered in white. The mother and daughter build a new relationship through the hardships they face and help each other understand this new reality. Through softly spoken prose and lyrical descriptions of daily living in both countries, this short novel is a breath of fresh air. This award winning translator took seven years to write this beautiful story in English. Loosely autobiographical she later translated it to Portuguese, her native language, so her mother could enjoy it too. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐