The Light Room

''Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup''
Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

''The Light Room is both a gift and a beacon''
Sin¿ Gleeson, author of Constellations

''Kate Zambreno has performed a miracle, capturing real, lived time from within the exhaustion of pandemic-era parenthood. The Light Room reminded me of that fundamental magic of writing - that the details of another person''s life, so precisely and honestly rendered, can instantly loosen the edges of your own life and make you feel less alone''
Jenny Odell, bestselling author of How to Do Nothing

In The Light Room, Zambreno offers her most profound and affecting work yet: a candid chronicle of life as a mother of two young daughters in a moment of profound uncertainty about public health, climate change, and the future we can exp