The Bright Years

This debut portraying love and redemption over four generations of a Texas family captured me from the opening scene, when twenty-something Lillian is reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in the library and is interrupted by Ryan, the man who becomes the love of her life. They are perfect for one another. But Lillian soon learns that the more you love someone, the more they can break your heart. Her new husband desperately wants them to have a baby, not knowing she already has a son. And she knows Ryan is a child of addiction, but never dreams he will soon be swallowed by it himself. Devastating and beautiful; get your Kleenex ready.