All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

Walk the paths of logic. Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution. Every lock its key.

As a parent, I’m continually trying (and failing) to beat back the flames of my anxiety with logic. This airplane’s bouncing around like mad, I tell myself, but how many planes actually crash from turbulence? My kid has a fever, but it’s just a fever, and everyone gets fevers from time to time, right? As the German invasion rolls into Paris, Marie-Laure’s father is under an overwhelming amount of stress, and like many of us, he tries to subdue his terror with rationality. His daughter is depending on him for her safety and it’s paramount that he doesn’t let his own fear engulf him.