The Brightest Never

Growing up in a picturesque city along the Rhine River in Germany Jonathan (Jace) and Anna have been best friends all their lives. Paul is the perfect stranger a handsome successful architect from Paris who moves into the neighborhood and straight into Anna's affections when they meet serendipitously in a riverside park. In this delicately told story employing multiple non-linear narratives The Brightest Never is a vivid modern tale of youthful passions enduring friendships and sudden incomprehensible tragedies. Carefully drawn chararacters across generations navigate the difficult and at times harrowing waters of intimacy loyalty and desire as they seek to know themselves more deeply and live more authentically through the bonds of love the freedom of truth and the power of imagination.