Count the Ways By Joyce Maynard

COUNT THE WAYS

A deeply intimate novel about marriage, heartbreak, and survival—tracing the unraveling of a long love and the quiet, hard-won strength it takes to rebuild a life after betrayal.

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What People are Saying

  • "Cut[s] across moments of national and personal upheaval to examine the complex web of family against the backdrop of history."

    - New York Times Book Review

  • "How did Maynard know that this is exactly the novel we all need now? Yes, it's a page-turning thriller and the characters are all so alive they breathe on the page, but there's something even grander going on here. Her exhilaratingly brilliant new novel isn't just an indelible story of the falling dominoes of a family struggling through crisis and through generations, it's also about the times we live through, from the draft to Aids to #MeToo and more. And, being Joyce, she gets at the heart of the most basic and important and beautiful of questions: What binds us together and what tears us apart, and how we can know the difference? How does love survive? This gorgeous story reminds us how, and that love is always, always worth it.”

    - Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You and With or Without You

  • "Count the Ways is an extraordinarily generous invitation into a woman's intimate life, from the loneliness of her youth to the earned wisdom of middle age. In this richly imagined novel, Maynard never flinches as she portrays both quiet successes and heartbreaking failures at love, marriage, and motherhood. This is the work of one of our great storytellers."

    - Meredith Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Beneficence

  • 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...Maynard creates a world rich and real enough to hold the pain she fills it with.”

    ~Kirkus Reviews

  • “Occasionally I read a book I can’t stop talking or thinking about. Joyce Maynard’s Count the Ways is one of those books. It is—quite simply—the best book I’ve read so far in 2021.”

    - Sarah Gelman, Editorial Director, Amazon Books

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