The Matter of Grace

Jessica Barksdale Inclan   (автор)

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In this timely and touching novel, Jessica Barksdale Inclan probes at
the heart of the contemporary family to reveal the closely intertwined
lives of four women struggling to be good wives, mothers, and friends...                   

Every summer, Felice, Helen, Stella, and Grace meet at Oakland View Swim and Tennis Club. As their children learn to swim, the four friends sit by the edge of the pool talking, laughing, sharing in each other's lives. After seven years, it seems nothing will ever change among them. Until this summer...

Grace has cancer. It wasn't supposed to return, but it has. And now, at the brink of crisis, as the women help Grace through her illness, they are forced to examine their own lives and wonder...why Felice no longer has anything in common with her husband, who was once her best friend...why Helen, who is so afraid of being ordinary, starts an affair with a man half her age...why Stella, who has everything, is willing to take the biggest risk of all. And why Grace, who says she is ill, is still working out at the gym and sitting by the pool as if nothing is the matter.

But something is the matter. And as the friends face adversity, they face the truth. That they don't really know Grace—or themselves—at all.

"Inclan never condescends and never judges, preferring to let her subtly drawn people speak for themselves."

—Kirkus Reviews

"Jessica Barksdale Inclan is an author to watch."

—New York Times Bestselling Author KRISTIN HANNAH