Two women running away from their marriages collide on a foggy highway, killing one of them. The survivor is left to pick up the pieces, not only of her own life, but also must go back and deal with the devastated husband and fragile,...
Abandoned by her boyfriend and at odds with her parents for choosing open adoption, Sara, a sixteen-year-old honor student, is sustained by her relationship with her daughter's adoptive parents until they become threatened by her incr...
A medical emergency leaves desperate newlywed Gary with a very sick wife, a new baby, a mountain of bills, and no job, and he is forced to make a difficult choise as he struggles to climb out from under his sufferings. Reader's Guide ...
A tragic accident: One woman is left dead after she and another woman, both running away from their marriages, collide in the fog on a highway. The survivor, Isabelle, is left to pick up the pieces, not only of her own life but of the...
Cruel Beautiful World: A Novel
Caroline Leavitt"A seductive page-turner that ripples with an undercurrent of suspense." —The Boston Globe"A seamless triumph of storytelling." —Gail Godwin, author of Flora It's 1969, and sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run...
In 1956, when divorced working-mom Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a Boston suburb, the neighborhood is less than welcoming. Lewis yearns for his absent father, befriending the only other fatherless kids...
It's 1956, and working-mother Ava Lark and her son, Lewis, have rented a house in a less-than-welcoming Boston suburb. There, Lewis finds he is only able to befriend the other fatherless kids on the block, Jimmy and Rose. But when Jim...