The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay

The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay was such and interesting and intricate story about love, regret and awakening. This story starts off with Nina, who has been in an accident that has left her hospital bound. While she is recovering she befriends a sweet doctor with whom she begins to recount pretty much the story of her life.

From early childhood she had been best friends with the brothers next door - Luca and Paolo. Luca was her age and Paolo was two years old, so naturally she was closer to Luca. As her childhood progresses into adulthood she ultimately marries Paolo (as Luca has already married) and remains best friends with Luca. Now in current day after 25 years of marriage to Paolo, Nina is recently divorced and has cut off all contact his with Luca.

As Nina reflects on the last 25 years she discovers reasons for some of her decisions and is still puzzled by others. Paolo in general seems the biggest mystery to Nina (and to me). The saying "hindsight is 20/20" rings throughout this book. I think the reason I enjoyed this book so much was that concept alone is so interesting- if anyone was to retell their own story you would connect dots that you didn't see before. That's exactly what Nina does and to see her do holds a bit of magic!! This book had so many layers and was beautifully written.