Douglas Light

Douglas Light cowrote The Trouble With Bliss, the screen adaptation of his debut novel, East Fifth Bliss. The film stars Brie Larson, Michael C. Hall, and Peter Fonda. He is the author of the novel Where Night Stops, the story collection Blood Stories, and of Girls in Trouble: Stories, which received the 2010 AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. His writing has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories and Best American Nonrequired Reading anthologies. For more information, visit his website:

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Fiction Family & Relationships

Where Night Stops

An excerpt from the novel by Douglas Light January 15, 2018

Word got around that I was out of the hospital. Heavy casseroles made with Campbell’s soups and topped with fried onions arrived on my doorstep. Food for my grieving. I threw them out.