Hester in Sunlight

Yes, that Hester — the fallen woman who bore the Scarlet Letter  while raising her daughter on her own. She is looking back, across that  clearing, and 150 years, at her fateful lover.

Less a re-telling  or transposition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic than a re-purposing of  the materials to tell a different version, Hester in Sunlight,  revolving around the relationships between the (unnamed) narrator; her  husband Sonny and gender fluid child Luna; her sister Dani and her two  kids; and their parents, is a heady and stimulating riff on contemporary  motherhood and parenting.