Publisher: Scribner
Publication Date: April 7, 2015
From barnesandnoble.com: From the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of The Dive From Clausen’s Pier,
a sweeping, masterful new novel 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, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San
Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area
Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of the family he has yet to create,
Bill buys the property on a whim. In Penny Greenway he finds a suitable
wife, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life seems compelling and
answerable, and they marry and have four children. Yet Penny is a
mercurial housewife, at a time when women chafed at the conventions
imposed on them. She finds salvation in art, but the cost is high.
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 reckoning with who they are,
separately and together, and set off a struggle over the family’s
future. One by one, the siblings take turns telling the story—Robert, a
doctor like their father; Rebecca, a psychiatrist; Ryan, a
schoolteacher; and James, the malcontent, the problem child, the only
one who hasn’t settled down—their narratives interwoven with portraits
of the family at crucial points in their history.
Which book are you waiting for?
...Will you add this one to your list of must-reads?
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