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

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062398307
  • ISBN: 006239830X
  • Physical Description: 422 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
Subject:
Families > Fiction.
Divorced women > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
Family farms > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Mother and child > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Siblings.
Friendships.
New Hampshire > Fiction.
Seattle (Wash.) > Fiction.
Vermont > Fiction.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Coming-of-age fiction

Available copies

  • 31 of 32 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.

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Mars Hill Library FIC MAY (Text) 30229101347549 Adult Fiction Checked out 08/15/2026

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