The importance of family relationships—how members influence and sustain each other—is a common theme in Bridgers's work, and it is introduced in her firt novel, Home Before Dark.
Stella Willis, the young protagonist, is growing up in a family of migrant farm workers. When they eventually return to the "homeplace" in North Carolina, they are welcomed and provided for by the younger Willis brother who.....
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