A novel about family and the secrets that we keep--a young woman
learning to love and leave home and realizing that, maybe, she never
quite left. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Still
Life with Bread Crumbs and Rise and Shine.
This story begins in the 1960s, and explores how Mimi Miller comes of
age, over and over again.
As a young girl in Miller's Valley, an ordinary farming town that may be
facing its final days, Mimi is observing adults, selling corn, growing
up and changing, and watching the world around her change, too.
As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna
Quindlen's novel takes us through the changing eras of Mimi and her
family, as secrets are revealed, and the heartbreaks of growing up and
falling in love with the wrong man are overcome.
A deeply moving, inspiring story of a young woman learning to love and
leave, the place and family from which she comes.