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A review by liralen
The Sunlit Night by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
3.0
Floating somewhere between three and three and a half stars. There are two stories here, intertwined: Frances takes off for the far reaches of Norway for the sake of an art internship; Yasha finds himself trailing his father across the ocean to seek out Yasha's mother, whom Yasha privately knows to no longer be in Russia.
I was pleased when the stories intersected, because I thought then that we might get more of Frances and of the cold far north. I love this idea of living in an abandoned asylum; of a former asylum repurposed as an artists' colony; of painting a barn in nothing but yellows. Yasha's mother does tend to take charge, though, to take over. Frances seems younger and both more and less sure of herself as the story progresses, and Yasha ever more like an insecure teenager, and both the asylum and the yellow paint fade into the background.
I was pleased when the stories intersected, because I thought then that we might get more of Frances and of the cold far north. I love this idea of living in an abandoned asylum; of a former asylum repurposed as an artists' colony; of painting a barn in nothing but yellows. Yasha's mother does tend to take charge, though, to take over. Frances seems younger and both more and less sure of herself as the story progresses, and Yasha ever more like an insecure teenager, and both the asylum and the yellow paint fade into the background.