Life doesn’t only exist in the bright and glorious places while we are on this earth. It is also lived in the shadows and the storms. It is lived in the smudging of chocolate and the baking of cornbread. Love is found in childhood memories and devastating loss. The Darks and the Lights is a journey of the author’s own life which forces the reader to share with her the joys and despairs, triumphs and disasters, as she brings them to life and makes them live again on the page.