How the light gets in /
M.J. Hyland.
- Dublin : Hachette Books Ireland, 2011.
- 288 p.
Originally published: Australia: Penguin, 2003; Edinburgh: Canongate, 2004.
Family--Work--Religion--Success--Loss--Sex and Love--Happiness--Aging--Death--Home--Epilogue
Lou Connor, a gifted, unhappy sixteen-year-old, is desperate to escape her life of poverty in Sydney. And when she is offered a place as an exchange student at a college in America, it seems as if her dreams are going to be fulfilled. But, once in America, things start to go terribly wrong.