NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Revelations about a seemingly ordinary mother
force her adult children to reexamine their lives in this "absorbing
novel about family secrets" (The Dallas Morning News).
Laura Bartone anticipates her annual family reunion in Minnesota with a
mixture of excitement and wariness. Yet this year's gathering will prove
to be much more trying than either she or her siblings imagined. As soon
as she arrives, Laura realizes that something is not right with her
sister. Forever wrapped up in events of long ago, Caroline is the
family's restless black sheep. When Caroline confronts Laura and their
brother, Steve, with devastating allegations about their mother, the
three have a difficult time reconciling their varying experiences in the
same house. But a sudden misfortune will lead them all to face the past,
their own culpability, and their common need for love and forgiveness.
Readers have come to love Elizabeth Berg for the "lucent beauty of
[her] prose, the verity of her insights, and the tenderness of her
regard for her fellow human" (Booklist). In The Art of Mending, she
confronts some of the deepest mysteries of life, as she explores how
even the largest sins can be forgiven by the smallest gestures, and how
grace can come to many through the trials of one.
