Rebecca Cooper

The Light Brigade Rebecca Cooper

In The Light Brigade, Rebecca Cooper dives headfirst into the difficulties of living in the light. This collection of powerful essays explores what it really means to be compassionate, empathetic, and brazen - all at the same time. This one is for the dreamers - for the dig down deep believers. For the two a.m. thinkers, and the never stop fighting achievers. This is for the deep, deep, dark, all-night survivors, and for the looking at the bottom of the barrels still-want-to-be-alivers. For the ones that know how to live and die by promises; for the ones that still know how to cross their hearts and hope the legend of their lives never die. This is for the torchbearers, the light-bringers, and the broad-shouldered warriors that show up to the arena early. For the ones that don't keep count because the count doesn't matter, and for the ones that search the horizon and ignore all of the pointless chatter. This is for the tenacious, audacious girls that don't need your dull crown because they brought their own, and this is for the ones that bear their chest scars like a holy battle cry to the forlorn. You're going to make it, they whisper. You're going to make it, they whisper. You're going to make it, they whisper, because we did, too. This is for the Light Brigade.