Do you remember your first love? A History of Light, a memoir, by Alvaro Cardona-Hine, is set in 1930s Costa Rica and written in a series of translucent meditations that shimmer with a tenderness as irresistible as memory itself. This glimpse of a different world and a young boy awakening to his own heart is sensual, yet profoundly innocent. Cardona-Hine wrote this book while stranded by a blizzard in a small town in Minnesota. "Suddenly, there she was, this apparition from the Thirties. In five days all white with tons of snow the book wrote itself, so effortlessly I had to change nothing, not even the names I felt incumbent to leave out so that those who read the story can supply their own, out of their own unsullied past." The author has thirteen previous titles including translation, memoir, and poetry. The smaller size (6 x 6 1/2 inches) is intended as an invitation to take the book in hand to read aloud to friends or lovers, or carry in a pocket to remind you to open your heart to love. Gate flaps add to the elegance of the edition along with the exquisite cover drawing by Cardona-Hine.