How the Light Gets In - A Novel

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel Count the Ways --a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor. 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). 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."

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Maynard, Maynard Joyce
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2025
• EAN: 9780062398314
• ISBN: 978-0-06-239831-4
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Relating to late adulthood / old age, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Multiple Timelines, Narrative theme: love / relationships