It is quite easy to see why Billie Kowalewski won the 2017 Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorites. Enlightened was well, for lack of a better word, enlightening. The subject of the book made me really think. Not sure if that is what Billie was going for. Alas, that is what it did for me. Enlightened is a book that deals in fantasy but it’s a fantasy that some may have thought of before. What if this life we have on earth is not our true lives? What if it’s just a school where we learn what we truly need to? What if we are to keep coming back to life…