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Count the Ways

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Count the Ways

By: Joyce Maynard
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In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times best-selling author Joyce Maynard returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of her most acclaimed work in a mesmerizing story of a family - from the hopeful early days of young marriage to parenthood, divorce, and the costly aftermath that ripples through all their lives.

Eleanor and Cam meet at a crafts fair in Vermont in the early 1970s. She’s an artist and writer, he makes wooden bowls. Within four years they are parents to three children, two daughters and a redheaded son who fills his pockets with rocks, plays the violin, and talks to God. To Eleanor, their New Hampshire farm provides everything she always wanted - summer nights watching Cam’s softball games, snow days by the fire, and the annual tradition of making paper boats and cork people to launch in the brook every spring. If Eleanor and Cam don’t make love as often as they used to, they have something that matters more. Their family.

Then comes a terrible accident, caused by Cam’s negligence. Unable to forgive him, Eleanor is consumed by bitterness, losing herself in her life as a mother, while Cam finds solace with a young new partner.

Over the decades that follow, the five members of this fractured family make surprising discoveries and decisions that occasionally bring them together and often tear them apart. Tracing the course of their lives - through the gender transition of one child and another’s choice to completely break with her mother - Joyce Maynard captures a family forced to confront essential, painful truths of its past and find redemption in its darkest hours.

A story of holding on and learning to let go, Count the Ways is an achingly beautiful, poignant, and deeply compassionate novel of home, parenthood, love, and forgiveness.

©2021 Joyce Maynard (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers
Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Exciting Heartfelt Tearjerking

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Count the Ways, read by the author, is an incredible book. The book has every element of a story I look for when selecting a book to carry me away from my own day to day.

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Read this book!

I loved it- couldn’t put it down. I was always so happy when Eleanor stood up for herself!!

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Count the ways amazing

Great book on so many levels. Emotional touching and thought provoking. The author narrated which was amazing. I couldn’t stop listening and had so much compassion for all the characters. This is a must read/ listen to book !

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Worth staying uo for

i looked forward to my nightly listen of this touching book. my heart longed for the reunification of the characters. Character development was so thorough thatv Ijated to say goodbye.

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A most enchanting family story.It has all theIngredients that make for a pureJoyous experience.

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Wonderful, moving story

I thought this was a fabulous book—I was sobbing at the end as it touched me so deeply. It’s about the messiness of families and of life in general and also about love, connection and forgiveness. I loved it.

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Magnificent

Lived the reading and storytelling of this marvelous novel. Our protagonist was so real and her growth through this story so moving. I could listen to Maynard read all day ! She and her stories are mesmerizing

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Didn’t want it to end

Another great book by Joyce Maynard. I’m already looking for her next one. This story will stick with me for a longtime. I needed this, to understand the process of forgiveness and coming full circle.

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Enthralled and uplifted

Joyce is a master story teller and I agree that in Count the Ways she brings the best of her gifts. Love her delivery here too. Well worth the listen. 👌

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Count the Ways

This, by far, is my favorite listen. I think because the author was the reader. Amazing writing & delivering it the way she meant & felt it! Thank you

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