How the Light Gets In: A Novel
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel Count the Ways—a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor.
Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children to care for their brain-injured son, Toby, now an adult. Toby's older brother, Al, is married and living in Seattle with his wife; their sister, Ursula, lives in Vermont with her husband and two children. Although all appears stable, old resentments, anger, and bitterness simmer just beneath the surface.
How the Light Gets In follows Eleanor and her family through fifteen years (2010 to 2024) as their story plays out against a uniquely American backdrop and the events that transform their world (climate change, the January 6th insurrection, school violence) and shape their lives (later-life love, parental alienation, steadfast friendship). With her trademark sensitivity and insight, Joyce Maynard paints an indelible portrait of characters both familiar and new making their way over rough, messy, and treacherous terrain to find their way to what is, for each, a place to call "home."
Formats
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
More Copies In LINK+
Subjects
More Details
Reviews from GoodReads
Citations
Joyce Maynard. (2024). How the Light Gets In: A Novel. Unabridged HarperAudio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Joyce Maynard. 2024. How the Light Gets In: A Novel. HarperAudio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Joyce Maynard, How the Light Gets In: A Novel. HarperAudio, 2024.
MLA Citation (style guide)Joyce Maynard. How the Light Gets In: A Novel. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2024.
Copy Details
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 2 | 0 |
There are 8 holds on this title.
Staff View
QR Code
API Extraction Dates
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{1CAF1260-35D4-4B5B-8954-A9D0F6C168AB}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/{1CAF1260-35D4-4B5B-8954-A9D0F6C168AB}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0293-1/{1CAF1260-35D4-4B5B-8954-A9D0F6C168AB}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0293-1/{1CAF1260-35D4-4B5B-8954-A9D0F6C168AB}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780063386082
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- id: audiobook-mp3
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780063386082
- name: OverDrive Listen
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- edition
- Unabridged
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Joyce Maynard
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- How the Light Gets In
- dateAdded
- 2024-06-21T01:38:00Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=141&titleID=10180535
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
- sortTitle
- How the Light Gets In A Novel
- crossRefId
- 10180535
- subtitle
- A Novel
- id
- 1CAF1260-35D4-4B5B-8954-A9D0F6C168AB
- starRating
- 0
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- duration: 16:48:53
- fileName: HowtheLightGetsIn_9780063386082_10180535
- partCount: 14
- fileSize: 479600468
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780063386082
- rights:
- type: PlayOnPC
- value: 1
- type: PlayOnPCCount
- value: -1
- type: BurnToCD
- value: 1
- type: BurnToCDCount
- value: -1
- type: PlayOnPM
- value: 1
- type: TransferToSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferToNonSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferCount
- value: -1
- type: CollaborativePlay
- value: 0
- type: PublicPerformance
- value: 0
- type: TranscodeToAAC
- value: 1
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-mp3
- onSaleDate: 6/25/2024
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1caf1260-35d4-4b5b-8954-a9d0f6c168ab&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- duration: 16:39:00
- fileName: HowtheLightGetsIn_9780063386082_10180535
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 479524123
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780063386082
- name: OverDrive Listen
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 6/25/2024
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1caf1260-35d4-4b5b-8954-a9d0f6c168ab&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Maynard, Joyce
- bioText:
Joyce Maynard is the author of twelve previous novels and five books of nonfiction, as well as the syndicated column, "Domestic Affairs." Her bestselling memoir, At Home in the World, has been translated into sixteen languages. Her novels To Die For and Labor Day were both adapted for film. Maynard divides her time between homes in California, New Hampshire, and Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.
- name: Joyce Maynard
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Maynard, Joyce
- bioText:
Joyce Maynard is the author of twelve previous novels and five books of nonfiction, as well as the syndicated column, "Domestic Affairs." Her bestselling memoir, At Home in the World, has been translated into sixteen languages. Her novels To Die For and Labor Day were both adapted for film. Maynard divides her time between homes in California, New Hampshire, and Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.
- name: Joyce Maynard
- publishDate
- 2024-06-25T00:00:00-04:00
- edition
- Unabridged
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- How the Light Gets In
- fullDescription
From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel Count the Ways—a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor.
Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children to care for their brain-injured son, Toby, now an adult. Toby's older brother, Al, is married and living in Seattle with his wife; their sister, Ursula, lives in Vermont with her husband and two children. Although all appears stable, old resentments, anger, and bitterness simmer just beneath the surface.
How the Light Gets In follows Eleanor and her family through fifteen years (2010 to 2024) as their story plays out against a uniquely American backdrop and the events that transform their world (climate change, the January 6th insurrection, school violence) and shape their lives (later-life love, parental alienation, steadfast friendship). With her trademark sensitivity and insight, Joyce Maynard paints an indelible portrait of characters both familiar and new making their way over rough, messy, and treacherous terrain to find their way to what is, for each, a place to call "home."
- reviews
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
June 3, 2024
Maynard continues the story of Eleanor, the resilient New Hampshire matriarch featured in 2020’s Count the Ways, with this heartwarming chronicle of a woman coping with changes in her life and in the country. Eleanor is estranged from her 30-something daughter, Ursula, who blames her mother for the breakup of their once tight-knit family, though it was Cam, Eleanor’s ex-husband, who left her for their babysitter, Coco. Eleanor’s son, Toby, who sustained brain damage in a childhood accident, tends goats on Eleanor’s farm and is generally well-liked by their neighbors, but after Donald Trump enters the presidential race in 2016, Eleanor senses a new mean-spiritedness around town, which she blames in part for Coco wrongly accusing Toby of molesting children. After Ursula develops long Covid, Eleanor takes care of her two children, who are in high school and middle school. Later, Eleanor finds romance with a climate activist, her first serious relationship with a man for many years, and she considers how much she’s sacrificed over the years by putting her family first. Maynard’s punchy chapters highlight pivotal moments in her characters’ lives, and she holds readers’ interest by showing how their relationships evolve. The author’s fans will be pleased.
- premium: True
- source:
- content: Joyce Maynard's sweater-warm voice is rich with nuance as she performs her newest, a sequel to her Earphones Award-winning COUNT THE WAYS. Taking place between 2010 and 2024, the story finds Eleanor, a successful writer, back on the family's New England farm after her former husband's death. In a story that is simultaneously profound and quotidian, she navigates life with three adult children--one brain injured and the others either geographically or emotionally distant. She also finds an unusual new love. Maynard's performance is both relaxed and intense, her pleasant manner offering welcome while her realistically paced delivery heightens the emotional stakes. Without creating character voices, she modifies her cadence and inflection in a way that illuminates personality and keeps the listener hooked. A.C.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine
- popularity
- 2577
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/1caf1260-35d4-4b5b-8954-a9d0f6c168ab/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- shareInLibby:
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=t1ebAMShdiw
- type: text/HTML
- self:
- id
- 1caf1260-35d4-4b5b-8954-a9d0f6c168ab
- starRating
- 5
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{1CAF1260-35D4-4B5B-8954-A9D0F6C168AB}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/{1CAF1260-35D4-4B5B-8954-A9D0F6C168AB}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0293-1/{1CAF1260-35D4-4B5B-8954-A9D0F6C168AB}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0293-1/{1CAF1260-35D4-4B5B-8954-A9D0F6C168AB}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Literature
- publishDateText
- 06/25/2024
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- shortDescription
From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel Count the Ways—a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor.
Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children to care for their brain-injured son, Toby, now an adult. Toby's older brother, Al, is married and living in Seattle with his wife; their sister, Ursula, lives in Vermont with her husband and two children. Although all appears stable, old resentments, anger, and bitterness simmer just beneath the surface.
How the Light Gets In follows Eleanor and her family through fifteen years (2010 to 2024) as their story plays out against a uniquely American backdrop and the events that transform their world (climate change, the January 6th insurrection, school violence)...
- sortTitle
- How the Light Gets In A Novel
- crossRefId
- 10180535
- subtitle
- A Novel
- publisher
- HarperAudio
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC019000
- description: Fiction / Literary
- code: FIC043000
- description: Fiction / Coming of Age
- code: FIC044000
- description: Fiction / Contemporary Women