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JOIN US FOR THIS EVENT Here is a rich and suspenseful novel from the award-winning author of Three Junes and I See You Everywhere.  In a quirky farmhouse outside Boston, a seventy-year-old Percy Darling enjoys a vigorous but mostly solitary life—until, in a complex scheme to help his oldest daughter through a crisis, he allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn.  The abrupt transformation of Percy’s rural refuge into a lively, youthful community compels him to reexamine the choices he’s made since his wife’s death, three decades ago, in a senseless accident that still haunts him. No longer can he remain aloof from his neighbors, his two grown daughters, or, to his shock, the precarious joy of falling in love. Meanwhile, Percy’s beloved grandson Robert, a premed student at Harvard, joins his visionary roommate in a series of environmental “actions” targeting the well-to-do; they begin as pranks but escalate, with dire consequences. With equal parts affection and satire, Julia Glass spins a powerful tale about the multigenerational loyalties, rivalries, and secrets of a family, inhabitants of a complacently prosperous world where no one is immune to unexpected change. Yet again, she plumbs the human heart brilliantly, dramatically, and movingly. Julia Glass is the author of Three Junes, winner of the National Book Award; The Whole World Over; and I See You Everywhere, winner of the John Garner Fiction Book Award. Her short fiction has also won several prizes, and her personal essays have been widely anthologized. She lives in Massachusetts. Julia Glass is now on Facebook at www.facebook.com/AuthorJuliaGlass