Good Life

Between workouts, charity events, and shopping, Ann Barons keeps her
days as full as her walk-in closets. She shares an immaculate house with
her CEO husband, Mike, and their two teenagers, Nate and Lauren. It's a
luxurious life, far from her homespun childhood on a farm in eastern
Pennsylvania...which is why Ann is wary when her elderly parents ask to
move in temporarily.
Ann prepares in the way she knows
best-hiring decorators and employing a full-time nurse for her
dementia-stricken father. But nothing can prepare her for the
transformations ahead. Soon, her mother Eileen is popping in to prepare
soups and roasts in Ann's underused kitchen, while the usually surly
Nate forms an alliance with his ailing grandfather. Lauren blossoms
under Eileen's guidance, and even workaholic Mike finds time to attend
high-school football games. But it's Ann who must make the biggest leap,
and confront the choices and values that have kept her floating on
life's surface for so long.
Timely, poignant, and wise, The Good Life
is a deeply satisfying and beautifully written story about the complex
relationships between parents and children-and the gap that often lies
between what we seek, and what will truly make us whole.
"The
moving story of a family's rebirth through the simple but profound acts
of daily kindness and sacrifice." -Holly Chamberlin, author of Last Summer