Chad Harbach — The Brightness — at Conn Ave

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Parties and weddings, messy hookups and marred friendships, art and love and grief— The Brightness https://politics prose.com/book/9780316455695 follows the electric, chaotic, everything can happen lives of Pella and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their way out of sleepy, Midwestern Westish College and out into a larger world that will upend their connection and everything they thought they understood about their own place within it. At 27, Pella's life looks settled: she's a recent college grad, engaged to Mike, her longtime boyfriend, and helping her friend Owen pull off his own destination wedding on Block Island. But over that wild wedding weekend, Pella's past and present collide spectacularly, blowing up her plans and sending her spiraling toward an unplan…

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