Three years ago, in Count the Ways, bestselling author Joyce Maynard introduced her multitude of fans to a family forced to confront painful truths about its past as it struggled to find redemption in its darkest hours.
Even once the poignant novel was published, Maynard couldn’t let go of the indomitable matriarch, Eleanor, or ignore how American families grapple with the realities transforming their world, from climate change to school violence and the January 6th insurrection. For her latest book, How the Light Gets In, she returns us to the messy life of three generations of the family coping with old resentments, anger and bitterness simmering just beneath the surface as they each find a place to call “home.”
Joyce Maynard is the New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels and three memoirs, including At Home in the World, translated into sixteen languages. Her novels To Die For and Labor Day were adapted for film. A fellow of Yaddo and MacDowell, early Moth Storyteller and longtime syndicated newspaper columnist, Maynard is the founder of the Lake Atitlan Memoir Workshop, where she has mentored women in the telling of their stories for over twenty years.