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Ordinary Love and Good Will
Ordinary Love and Good Will
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Two novellas: Ordinary Love At a reunion with her grown children, a woman recalls the long-ago affair that ended her relationship with their father—and changed all their lives irrevocably. Good Will Despite the carefully self-sufficient life he has designed for his small family, a man discovers that even the right choices have unexpected consequences—sometimes heart-breaking ones.
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Two novellas:

Ordinary Love
At a reunion with her grown children, a woman recalls the long-ago affair that ended her relationship with their father—and changed all their lives irrevocably.

Good Will
Despite the carefully self-sufficient life he has designed for his small family, a man discovers that even the right choices have unexpected consequences—sometimes heart-breaking ones.

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About Jane

Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, California, moved to the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri as an infant, and lived there through grammar school and high school (The John Burroughs School).

After getting her Bachelor of Art at Vassar College in 1971, she traveled in...

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Published Reviews

Nov.19.2007

[T]his powerful and poignant book doesn't lean against [King] Lear for support. Jane Smiley takes the truths therein and lights them up her way, making the perils of family and property and being a...

Oct.26.2007

Her great virtue as a writer about horses is her emotional candor. Most horse owners, in an effort to appear rational, try to refrain from talking about how deeply they love their animals or from telling...