Books by Robb Forman Dew

Claudia and Avery Park, lovers since high school, are now in their 30s. Intelligent and charming, they seem to be the ideal couple. However, they are casually yet cruelly oblivious to the ways in which their words and actions affect other people, most particularly their own 11-year-old daughter.

This story explores themes of familial and romantic bonds as it tells of a woman whose husband stays behind in New England while she and their children spend the summer in her Midwestern hometown.

Summer 1991, the Howells family are revisited in a small academic town in Massachusetts. Dinah and Martin's middle son Toby died six years ago. David, 18, is about to go to Harvard and Sarah is now 13. A young woman, Netta Breckenridge, enters the family's lives and creates a fragile domesticity.

Set against the landscape of a turn-of-the-century small mid-western town, this is a romance of the close ties of childhood, of new love, of ambition and of family myth.

From National Book Award winner Robb Forman Dew, a masterful novel about a woman finding a new life for herself and her grown children after her husband's death.

From the National Book Award winning author of Dale Loves Sophie to Death, a gorgeously rendered story about a woman starting anew in the middle of her life