Download or read book How the Light Gets In: Popular Penguins written by M.J. Hyland and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lou Connor wants to escape her emotionally crass family and life of poverty, so she travels from Sydney to the USA as an exchange student. But her host-family, the Hardings – who live in a prefabricated mansion in a nameless Chicago suburb – are in suffocating pursuit of a particular form of suburban perfection. From the very beginning, nothing is as it seems.