From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated followup to her beloved novel Count the Waysa complex, multigenerational family saga about three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor. Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fiftyfouryearold Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children to care for their braininjured son, Toby, now an adult. Tobys older brother, Al, is married and living in Seattle with his wife their sister, Ursula, lives in Vermont with her husband and two children. Although all appears stable, old resentments, anger, and bitterness simmer just beneath the surface in this powerful example of family life fiction. How the Light Gets In follows Eleanor and her family through fifteen years (2010 to 2024) as their story plays out against a uniquely American backdrop and the events that transform their world (climate change, the January 6th insurrection, school violence) and shape their lives in this moving work of contemporary womens fiction (laterlife love, parental alienation, steadfast friendship). With her trademark sensitivity and insight, Joyce Maynard paints an indelible portrait of characters both familiar and new making their way over rough, messy, and treacherous terrain to find their way to what is, for each, a place to call home.

Binding: Paperback;432 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc; Classification: FA; Weight: 446 g; Dimensions: 202 x 134 x 29

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