The Art of Mending: A Novel
by By Berg, Elizabeth
Category: Fiction , Women

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Revelations about a seemingly ordinary mother force her adult children to reexamine their lives in this “absorbing novel about family secrets” (The Dallas Morning News). Laura Bartone anticipates her annual   family reunion in Minnesota with a mixture of excitement and wariness. Yet this year’s   gathering will prove to be much more trying than either she or her siblings imagined.   As soon as she arrives, Laura realizes that something is not right with her sister.   Forever wrapped up in events of long ago, Caroline is the family’s restless black   sheep. When Caroline confronts Laura and their brother, Steve, with devastating allegations   about their mother, the three have a difficult time reconciling their varying experiences   in the same house. But a sudden misfortune will lead them all to face the past, their   own culpability, and their common need for love and forgiveness. Readers have come   to love Elizabeth Berg for the “lucent beauty of [her] prose, the verity of her insights,   and the tenderness of her regard for her fellow human” (Booklist). In The Art of   Mending, she confronts   some of the deepest mysteries of life, as she explores how even the largest sins   can be forgiven by the smallest gestures, and how grace can come to many through   the trials of one.