Joyce Maynard. (2021). Count the Ways: A Novel. Unabridged HarperAudio.

Joyce Maynard. 2021. Count the Ways: A Novel. HarperAudio.

Joyce Maynard, Count the Ways: A Novel. HarperAudio, 2021.

Joyce Maynard. Count the Ways: A Novel. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2021.

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     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.

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In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling 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 red-headed 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 new young 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.

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     Maynard (Under the Influence) explores the intricacies of marriage and family in this emotionally potent epic novel. Eleanor, an only child, is orphaned in her teens when her parents die in a car accident. She is drawn into a one-sided relationship with her best friend's older brother, who takes advantage of her naivete. After graduating from boarding school, Eleanor writes and illustrates a successful children's book, which earns her a solid nest egg that she uses to purchase a farm in New Hampshire. The solitary life suits her, until she meets Cam, a back-to-the-land 1970s hippie. Their whirlwind relationship leads to an idyllic marriage and three children who are a source of delight and wonder. Then a tragic event caused by Cam's carelessness shatters their charmed lives and slowly begins to tear their family apart. An opportunity to reunite the family arises when eldest child Al hosts his wedding on the family farm, but they find it's difficult to forgive. VERDICT Historical events and popular culture of the 1970s and 1980s are thoughtfully contrasted with intimate details of Eleanor's life, from the joys of early marriage to the travails of motherhood. Readers will sink into Maynard's masterful portrait of one woman's life in this decades-spanning family saga.--Nanette Donohue, Champaign P.L., IL

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Since she was once a homeless orphan, Eleanor's chaotic, joyous family and farm mean everything to her. And then.... How much pain and loss can one person take? How can you end up evicted from a world you built yourself? How can doing the right thing backfire totally? In her 10th novel, Maynard vividly imagines a scenario that answers these questions with hard-won wisdom, patiently leading her protagonist and her readers through the valley of bitterness and isolation to what lies on the other side. When she is just 16, Eleanor's alcoholic, self-involved parents are killed in a car crash. At boarding school, she comforts herself by creating picture books about an orphan who travels the world; these sell to a publisher, and by the time she's a sophomore in college, she has enough money to drop out, drive into the countryside, and buy a farm. "It looked like a house where people who loved each other had lived," she thinks. If you build it, they will come--right? Nonetheless, several years go by in solitude, and not without additional tragedy. At last, she meets Cam, the handsome, redheaded woodworker who will give her three children they both adore. But even as Eleanor revels in motherhood with every cell of her being, her glue gun, and her pie pan, she knows fate cannot be trusted. "If anything really terrible ever happened to one of our children, I couldn't survive," she tells her husband. Could loving her children too much be her downfall? she worries. When an accident that her husband could have prevented changes their lives, she will find out. She will find out how, in your grief, you can drive away the people you love most. And she will find out, slowly, what you can do about that. The novel bites off a lot--a Brett Kavanaugh-inspired storyline, a domestic abuse situation, a trans child, Eleanor's career--and manages to resolve them all, in some cases a bit hastily. Maynard creates a world rich and real enough to hold the pain she fills it with.

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     What Eleanor, orphaned at 15, wants most are a home and family. In 1973, only 20 and already the author and illustrator of a popular children's book series, Eleanor buys a used Toyota and hits the road. In rural New Hampshire, she buys a long-abandoned farmhouse shaded by a mighty ash with a bubbling brook and waterfall nearby. A few years later, she has a husband, craftsman Cam, and three children. Eleanor builds a bucolic life that includes an annual spring ritual of making cork people and setting them in paper boats afloat on the fast-flowing stream. The family races along the banks, watching the progress of their creations. Some cork people make it through a dark culvert, and others don't, a poignant embodiment of Eleanor's biggest fear, that she might lose one of her children. Maynard (Under the Influence, 2016) portrays Eleanor, her family, and their precious home through three tumultuous American decades, setting their story amidst seminal events and to a soundtrack featuring the music of each era. Sensitively plumbing the complexity of human emotions, of love and forgiveness, she draws readers into a deep, aching attachment to her characters, creating an ultimately hopeful tale just right for this moment.

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   • content: Author/narrator Joyce Maynard's embodiment of her characters is disarming. Her performance reaches a profound level of intimacy that is moving and heartbreaking. Spanning decades, Maynard's story centers on Eleanor, who loses her parents at 16 in a vehicle accident. Eleanor channels her grief into a successful career as a children's author, eventually moving to a farm and settling into a life of genuine happiness with her husband and children. Yet tragedy and grief upend this world. Throughout, Maynard provides much thoughtful detail. She doesn't just set scenes, she knits together the experiences and choices in Eleanor's life, making the novel incredibly moving. The result is a study of family that is authentic and alive. Her performance adds to its depth and nuance. S.P.C. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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