
Meet Anna Delaney, a smart, loving woman whose life is shattered when her car skids on some unexpected ice-the last remnants of winter-and her nine-year-old son Kevin is killed. Reeling from this loss and bruised by the effects of a now-defunct marri...
"The air was clean, the fields vacant, the horizon lined with poplares. In the windless sky above, clouds hung as white as shirts. But all Austin could think of was his absent wife and son."
A powerful novel of love, marriage and the ties tha...
In the spring of 1956, a young American photographer falls in love with a Cuban line cook in New York. They have a ten-week affair which ends when Immigration arrests and deports him, and by then Clare Miller is pregnant. Few Americans...
After a near-fatal overdose and a month in rehab, Ginny asks her son Rob to take her home and help clear out the alcohol from her house. They pour her bottles of wine and gin onto the lawn, then flush her pills down the toilet. Her older son Jamie an...