National Book Award winner Julia Glass discusses her novel The Widower’s Tale. In a quirky farmhouse outside Boston, 70 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. Glass is the author of Three Junes.
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