Author: Anne LeClaire
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307415120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
In the tradition of The Good Mother and The Deep End of the Ocean, Anne D. LeClaire delivers a heartbreaking–and breathtaking–novel of two very different but equally loving mothers who face the most painful of losses and then find the courage not only to go on but to find meaning and hope in their lives. Rose Nelson is a middle-aged woman with a broken past, a sorrow from which she cannot recover. Secretly guilty about her role in her teenaged son’s death five years ago, she has sealed herself off from life, enveloped by a grief that has slowly eaten away at her relationship with her husband. Against her will, Rose is drawn into the world she has avoided when Opal Gates and her five-year-old son, Zack, move in next door. Determined to start an independent life for herself, twenty-year-old Opal has left her family and the father of her son in North Carolina. But when she quickly begins an affair with Tyrone Miller, a part-time mechanic and local musician, Opal unwittingly breaks the tacit rules of both her family and her new hometown. Initially, Rose cannot bear the sight of Opal and her son. But later when Zack is injured, she instinctively lies to protect Opal from a single mistake that changes the lives of everyone involved. Faced with a custody suit brought by Zack’s father and her own parents, Opal faces a trial in which each choice she has made will be used as ammunition in the battle to take Zack away from her. Confronting such devastating loss and the questions it poses are at the heart of Entering Normal. How does one go on after great tragedy? What is a family? What sacrifices must a mother be willing to make for her child? And how can a good mother sometimes make bad choices? Entering Normal is a story of family, a novel about courage, loss, risk, and betrayal. It is a story that goes to the heart of love.
Entering Normal
Author: Anne LeClaire
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307415120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
In the tradition of The Good Mother and The Deep End of the Ocean, Anne D. LeClaire delivers a heartbreaking–and breathtaking–novel of two very different but equally loving mothers who face the most painful of losses and then find the courage not only to go on but to find meaning and hope in their lives. Rose Nelson is a middle-aged woman with a broken past, a sorrow from which she cannot recover. Secretly guilty about her role in her teenaged son’s death five years ago, she has sealed herself off from life, enveloped by a grief that has slowly eaten away at her relationship with her husband. Against her will, Rose is drawn into the world she has avoided when Opal Gates and her five-year-old son, Zack, move in next door. Determined to start an independent life for herself, twenty-year-old Opal has left her family and the father of her son in North Carolina. But when she quickly begins an affair with Tyrone Miller, a part-time mechanic and local musician, Opal unwittingly breaks the tacit rules of both her family and her new hometown. Initially, Rose cannot bear the sight of Opal and her son. But later when Zack is injured, she instinctively lies to protect Opal from a single mistake that changes the lives of everyone involved. Faced with a custody suit brought by Zack’s father and her own parents, Opal faces a trial in which each choice she has made will be used as ammunition in the battle to take Zack away from her. Confronting such devastating loss and the questions it poses are at the heart of Entering Normal. How does one go on after great tragedy? What is a family? What sacrifices must a mother be willing to make for her child? And how can a good mother sometimes make bad choices? Entering Normal is a story of family, a novel about courage, loss, risk, and betrayal. It is a story that goes to the heart of love.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307415120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
In the tradition of The Good Mother and The Deep End of the Ocean, Anne D. LeClaire delivers a heartbreaking–and breathtaking–novel of two very different but equally loving mothers who face the most painful of losses and then find the courage not only to go on but to find meaning and hope in their lives. Rose Nelson is a middle-aged woman with a broken past, a sorrow from which she cannot recover. Secretly guilty about her role in her teenaged son’s death five years ago, she has sealed herself off from life, enveloped by a grief that has slowly eaten away at her relationship with her husband. Against her will, Rose is drawn into the world she has avoided when Opal Gates and her five-year-old son, Zack, move in next door. Determined to start an independent life for herself, twenty-year-old Opal has left her family and the father of her son in North Carolina. But when she quickly begins an affair with Tyrone Miller, a part-time mechanic and local musician, Opal unwittingly breaks the tacit rules of both her family and her new hometown. Initially, Rose cannot bear the sight of Opal and her son. But later when Zack is injured, she instinctively lies to protect Opal from a single mistake that changes the lives of everyone involved. Faced with a custody suit brought by Zack’s father and her own parents, Opal faces a trial in which each choice she has made will be used as ammunition in the battle to take Zack away from her. Confronting such devastating loss and the questions it poses are at the heart of Entering Normal. How does one go on after great tragedy? What is a family? What sacrifices must a mother be willing to make for her child? And how can a good mother sometimes make bad choices? Entering Normal is a story of family, a novel about courage, loss, risk, and betrayal. It is a story that goes to the heart of love.
Biennial Report of the Board of Regents of Normal Schools of Wisconsin for the School Years ...
Author: Wisconsin. Board of Regents of Normal Schools
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Conditions and Needs of Wisconsin's Normal Schools
Author: Wisconsin. State Board of Public Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Maryland. State Board of Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Report of the Board of Education
Author: Connecticut. State Board of Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
The Budget Report of the State Board of Finance and Control to the General Assembly, Session of [1929-] 1937
Author: Connecticut. Board of Finance and Control
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 1542
Book Description
Budget report for 1929/31 deals also with the operations of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1928 and the estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 1542
Book Description
Budget report for 1929/31 deals also with the operations of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1928 and the estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929.
Report
Author: New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Committee on School Inquiry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Report of Committee on School Inquiry, Board of Estimate and Apportionment, City of New York ...
Author: New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Committee on School Inquiry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Public Documents of the State of Wisconsin
Report on a Survey of Certain Aspects of the Lancaster, Pa. City School District, Section 1-5
Author: School District of Lancaster, Pa. Board of School Directors
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description