The Weight of the Light

"The land remembers who it feeds and who it buries."

Alabama, 1927.

In the sweltering heat of Tallapoosa County, survival is a complicated mathematics of knowing when to speak and when to stay silent. For Mr. Henry and Lee Lowe, life in the Jim Crow South is defined by the weights they choose to carry - and the secrets they must keep to protect those they love.

Spanning decades of family legacy amongst the red clay of the American South, The Weight of the Light is a story of grace found in unexpected places: within illegal electricity, a shared silver coin, and the quiet courage to hold a barn door shut against a world determined to tear everything apart. Based on powerful true family history, this debut novel explores the bonds that forge us, the secrets that may break us, and the light that keeps burning long after the night has gone dark.