![]() ![]() ![]() Consumed with grief, mounting bills, everyday tasks that seem insurmountable, and three kids that have become nagging sources of frustration, Annie fails to see that the family is beginning to come apart. Her sister, Jess, does her best to comfort Annie, only to find the boundaries of their own close relationship stretched to its limits. Once safe inside a happy seventeen year marriage, Annie finds her entire world turned upside down after Keith’s death. But a shadow has fallen over this particular trip: Keith is dying of cancer. They know this place like the back of their station wagon. Keith, Annie, and their three children have rented the same cottage here every summer for the past six years. ![]() North of Bay City, Michigan, past the small highway town of Au Gres, past acres of sugar beets and fields of grazing sheep, the Browner family enters the slow curve in the road that leads onto a view of Lake Huron. Now, in her luminous new novel, Errands, Guest once again gives us an unforgettable family that finds the fabric of their lives unraveling. With a perceptive eye that captures the nuanced relationships of husbands and wives, parents and children, and the constant tug of war of sibling rivalry, she creates remarkably real characters struggling with profound dilemmas. As bestselling author of the critically acclaimed masterpiece, Ordinary People, Judith Guest knows the subtle rhythms of family life. ![]()
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