After teaching and raising her family for most of her life, Agnes Scofield realizes she is truly weary of her routine. But how, at 51, to establish a separate identity? Her newfound freedom may not s
"ASTONISHINGLY MOVING...The Family Heart is a tough and challenging work, for it reminds us that empathy is a humble but radical virtue, if lived."--USA Today" I'm gay.' Every day, parents around the
Agnes Scofield, the heroine of Dew's lovely,low-key period piece, can join Mrs. Ramsay and Mrs. Bridge at the teatable of exquisitely etched literary matrons. A respectable Ohiowidow with three grown
Now restored to print--the acclaimed second novel by the National Book Award--winning author of Dale Loves Sophie to Death and The Evidence Against Her. Claudia and Avery Parks, lovers since high scho
Inseparable from birth, three children--Robert Butler, Lily Scofield, and her cousin Warren--experience the complications of love and family relationships as Robert and Lily marry, despite her love fo
The author of the National Book Award-winning Dale Loves Sophie to Death picks up the Howell family saga just as their oldest son, David, prepares to enter Harvard, revealing the evolution of a mother
Toby's illness disrupts the routine of his parents' summer, making them see their lives and relationship in a new light, in a new edition of the National Book Award-winning classic. Reader's Guide inc
After teaching and raising her family for most of her life, Agnes Scofield is tired of the routine. But how, at 51, can she establish an identity apart from what has so long defined her? Often eloquen
Robb Forman Dew first began collecting her Thanksgiving recipes at the request of a cousin who hadn't cooked before. InA Southern Thanksgiving, she gathers them into a cookbook--both practical and lit
The Complete Poems contains every poem that John Crowe Ransom wrote, including his three books—Poems About God, Chills and Fever, and Two Gentlemen in Bonds—as well as the additional poems that appear