How the Light Gets In
- Auteur: Joyce Maynard (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: William Morrow & Company
- Verschijnt: 17 juli 2025
- Omvang: 432 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 20,00 / £ 10.99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Joyce Maynard How the Light Gets In review en recensie
- “If ever we needed a novel capable of healing our troubled, world-weary souls, that time is now. But where, oh where, is the book? Actually, it has arrived: Joyce Maynard’s new novel, How the Light Gets In. And what a gift it is.” (Richard Russo)
- “In How the Light Gets In, Joyce Maynard casts her clear eye over all we have endured thus far in our still-young century, illustrating as she does just how we have endured it: through bumbling luck and enduring love, hope, persistence, the consolations of nature, the comfort of daily work. A novel that understands how grace accrues over time in families, making the past bearable, the future possible. A wise and lovely book.” (Alice McDermott)
- “Joyce Maynard has stitched together a warm, rich patchwork quilt of a novel that reminds us history is made up simply of our stories; and that even in broken, imperfect things one finds beauty and strength.” (Jodi Picoult)
Flaptekst van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Joyce Maynard
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 New Hampshire farm where they raised three children to care for their brain-injured son, Toby, now an adult. Toby’s older brother, Al, is married and living in Seattle with his wife; their sister, Ursula, lives in Vermont with her husband and two children. Although all appears stable, old resentments, anger, and bitterness simmer just beneath the surface.
How the Light Gets In follows Eleanor and her family through fifteen years (2010 to 2024) as their story plays out against a uniquely American backdrop and the events that transform their world (climate change, the January 6th insurrection, school violence) and shape their lives (later-life love, parental alienation, steadfast).