The VanderZees seem like an average American family. Malcolm, a professor at a small Midwestern college, and Esme, a lapsed artist, are raising four kids in a chaotic but loving home. Yet in Lorna J. Cook's charming and wryly comic first novel, the i...
Emotionally unable to return to her home after the sudden death of her husband, Anna Rainey seeks solace in a respective number of friends' homes, where she receives different kinds of support and advice before finding the courage to persevere. By th...