How the light gets in : a novel / Joyce Maynard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maynard, Joyce, 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Divorced women--Fiction.

Divorced women.

Grief--Fiction.

Grief.

Family farms--Fiction.

Family farms.

Siblings--Fiction.

Siblings.

Mother and child--Fiction.

Mother and child.

Friendship--Fiction.

Friendship.

New Hampshire--Fiction.

New Hampshire.

Seattle (Wash.)--Fiction.

Seattle (Wash.).

Vermont--Fiction.

Vermont.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Novels.

Physical Description:

422 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]

Summary:

Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children to care for their brain-injured son, Toby, now an adult. Toby's 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. 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 (later-life love, parental alienation, steadfast friendship)"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780062398307

006239830X

OCLC:

1401907615