num_pages: 306
description: The tensions in a tight-knit neighborhoodand a seemingly happy marriageare exposed by an unexpected act of violence in this provocative new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Millers Valley and Still Life with Bread Crumbs. Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband Charlie lead a charmed lifeexcept when theres a crisis at work a leak in the roof at home or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Noras dream destination and her clannish dead-end block has become a safe harbor a tranquil village amid the urban craziness. Then one morning she returns from her run to discover that a terrible incident has shaken the neighborhood and the fault lines begin to open: on the block at her job especially in her marriage. With humor understanding an acute eye and a warm heart Anna Quindlen explores what it means to be a mother a wife and a woman at a moment of reckoning.
language: English
title: Alternate Side
publisher: Random House