"Readers, you will shed tears and talk long into the night about this book. What can we ask of one another? What can we give? What is love in the face of death? Profound and moving and real, Packer has written another stirring account of the heart." Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer P...
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The calm stability of Carrie Bell's life in Wisconsin is shattered when her fiance is paralyzed in an accident. A morally complex novel about the desire to live fully and the conflict between who we want to be to others and who we must be for ourselves.
"A portrait of a California family spanning several decades that examines the way a troubled marriage sets the course of family life and encourages adult children to grapple with the past even as they attempt to create successful families--and lives--of their own"-- Provided by p...
"Liz and Sarabeth were childhood neighbors in the suburbs of northern California, brought as close as sisters by the suicide of Sarabeth's mother when the girls were just sixteen. In the decades that followed - through Liz's marriage and the birth of her children., through Sarabe...
In 1954 Bill Blair and Penny Greenway marry and have four children. Thirty years later, the three oldest Blair children, adults now and still living near the family home, are disrupted by the return of the youngest, whose sudden presence and all-too-familiar troubles force a reck...
From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Ann Packer, a "tour de force family drama" ( Elle ) that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five decades. Bill Blair finds the land by accident...
In Ann Packer's first novel in over a decade, Eliot and Claire have been married for nearly 40 years when Claire is diagnosed with cancer. As they settle into their last days together, Claire makes an unexpected request that leaves Eliot's world shattered. What if your partners d...
From Ann Packer, author of the New York Times best-selling novels The Dive from Clausen's Pier and Songs Without Words , a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories, framed by two unforgettable linked narratives that express the transformation of a single family o...