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Gliding past the aging bookshelf, a shimmer of gold and a familiar name caught my eye. I raced my fingers across a collection of books by my favorite author, Danielle Steel. A particularly peculiar binding protruded from the dusty shelf. Dressed in an all black cover with only a line of gold on the binding read the title “His Bright Light." My mom explained this story to me of how she had found her favorite book in her aunt’s apartment seven years ago. The funeral had just ended and they were going through her things sorrowfully. My mom came across this book and discovered that it had been a gift to her aunt from a cousin in February of 1999. She read the book the whole way home from New Brunswick, Canada to Miami, Florida, balling her eyes out. “His Bright Light" is the only non-fictional book Danielle Steel has ever written. It is about one of her nine children, the eldest son, who was tortured by manic depression. The story goes through the twisted nineteen years of his life and how it strained the relationship between mother-and-son and with his whole family. It reveals some personal journal entries of the talented, tormented, gorgeous young man and the pain and suffering he endured. The message she relayed through this book was one directed to other parents. Danielle Steel was trying to communicate that if you sense something is wrong with your child, get help. She feels that if she had acted upon the situation earlier when her gut feeling had told her to, she might have saved her son’s life, “I love how her fictional books are unbelievably realistic,” my mother noted about Danielle Steel’s writing technique. “Every book has a reason for being written,” she continued. Danielle Steel has written over seventy novels and my mother has personally read around thirty-five. She enjoys the real-life settings and how she is drawn into the character. She absolutely loves Danielle Steel and hopes to continue reading her fabulous collection.
What Parents Read By: Nika Simonson
