num_pages: 376
description: In a novel reminiscent of the work of Penelope Lively Anne Tyler and Alice Munro acclaimed author Marina Endicott gives us one of the most satisfying most profound and most memorable reads of the year. Absorbed in her own failings Clara Purdy crashes her life into a sharp left turn taking the young family in the other car along with her. When bruises on the mother Lorraine prove to be late-stage cancer Claraagainst all habit and comfortmoves the three children and their terrible grandmother into her own house. We know what is good but we don't do it. In Good to a Fault Clara decides to give it a try and then has to cope with the exhaustion fury hilarity and unexpected love. But she must question her own motives. Is she acting out of true goodness or out of guilt? Most shamefully has she taken over simply because she wants the baby for her own? What do we owe in this life and what do we deserve? This compassionate funny and fiercely intelligent novel looks at life and death through grocery-store reading being good being at fault and finding some balance on the precipice.
language: English
title: Good To A Fault
publisher: Freehand Books