The Light of Fireflies is a story of a boy who has lived underground in a basement his whole life along with his parents, his grandmother, his brother, his sister, and his nephew. One interesting fact is that we never find out the name of the boy.
Despite the boys’ mother acting like their family and the life they are leading is a normal one – it is actually anything but normal.
The boys’ sister wears a white mask to cover her face which was apparently badly burned. She is banned from taking the mask off by her dad as he doesn’t want the boy to be scared at the sight of her.
To pass the time, the boy spends most of his time playing with a cactus and trailing the little but of light that comes from the crack in a wall.
The boy begins to question life in the basement and in particular where the door beside the kitchen goes to. As well as who is the father of his sisters baby, his nephew? And what happened before his birth and why do the whole family live in a basement?
This book is one that gets you so involved in the story that you are unable to put it down until you have finished.
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