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. Tobys 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 friendship). With her trademark sensitivity and insight Joyce Maynard paints an indelible portrait of characters both familiar and new making their way over rough messy and treacherous terrain to find their way to what is for each a place to call home.
