The prose is evocative as it clearly communicates the despair, ptsd, anger, selfishness, and confusion that covers this family because of the actions of a haunted father.

What trauma and history could possibly lead a father to imprison a daughter under the guise of protection? What loyalty keeps a mother from freeeing her daughter and fleeing with her children? How the responsibility passed on to a son can make him overlook his sister's personhood and perpetuate his father's incarceration.

The pacing of this book is quite quick and I feel that hurt the plot evolution and eventual conclusion of the book. I love books that give backstories of our main characters, here though Iromuanya focuses on the mother instead of the father, which I felt was a misstep in that it left his experience as a soldier and POW too obscure and thus left the reader too much in the dark with regards to his trauma-aided motivations.

#aseasonoflight speaks to the cyclical and damaging nature of secrets and hidden pain as well as the healing that can commence when we face our deepest fears and dark past.