How the Light Gets In

By Joyce Maynard,

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Book description

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…

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Why read it?

1 author picked How the Light Gets In as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is a sequel to Maynard's novel, Count The Ways. One of the story lines is about the main character's estrangement with her adult daughter. The perspective is more from the mother's point of view, and the growth of both characters is written beautifully.

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