A masterful, engrossing novel about the life of a large family that is deeply bonded by the stranger in their midst -- an autistic child
The whole world could not have broken the spirit and strength of the Eberhardt family of 1948. Lainey is a wonderful if slightly eccentric mother. David is a good father, sometimes sarcastic, always cool-tempered. Two wonderful children round out the perfect picture. Then the next child arrives -- and life is never the same again. Over the next forty years, the Eberhardt family struggles to survive a flood tide of upheaval and heartbreak, love and betrayal, passion and pain...hoping they can someday heal their hearts.
Author Info
Sue Miller is the bestselling author of While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest, For Love, Family Pictures, Inventing the Abbotts, and The Good Mother. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Reviews
“Dazzling and disturbing.” - People
“Miller does an extraordinary job of representing the terrible (or wonderful), thick intimacy of family life.” - San Francisco Chronicle
“Profoundly honest, shapely, ambitious, engrossing.” - New York Times Book Review
“Absolutely flawless. It captures perfectly the sass and grit of family life. Harrowing and funny and haunting.” - Chicago Tribune
