{"product_id":"some-bright-nowhere-a-novel-isbn-9780063474314","title":"Some Bright Nowhere: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Extraordinary. . . . This novel about marriage and friendship and life and dying is a marvel.\"—Elin Hilderbrand\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A moving meditation on love’s many forms and how a marriage can surprise you—right to the end.”—\u003ci\u003ePeople \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if your partner’s dying wish broke your heart?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow well do we know the deepest wishes of those we love dearly?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEliot and his wife, Claire, have been happily married for nearly four decades. They’ve raised two children in their sleepy Connecticut town and have weathered the unavoidable ups and downs of a long life spent together. But eight years after Claire was diagnosed with cancer, the end is near, and she makes an unexpected request that leaves Eliot reeling. Confronted by a profound turning point in his marriage and his life, Eliot grapples with the man and husband he’s been, in a novel that explores the precious gifts and unexpected costs of truly loving someone, and the fears and desires we experience as the end of life draws near.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“This beautifully written story is going to get you thinking about some things that really matter. The story leaves you questioning the obligations of marriage and the difference between male and female friendships, and one of the most significant of questions: How do you want to spend your last days?” \u003cb\u003e— Oprah Winfrey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A moving meditation on love’s many forms and how a marriage can surprise you—right to the end.” — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Harrowing, but brilliant.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“We stay in the mystery of this couple, with its shades and shifts. And in the final pages, with their small, quiet turns, we have the readerly satisfaction of a good ending, that elusive and beckoning goal.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Packer sketches the nuances of [Claire and Eliot's] love with a devastating sharpness, poignantly exploring the challenges of facing death with grace.\" — \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Packer's gorgeous, deeply involving novel is a suspenseful and radiant reckoning with love, sorrow, and the everlasting mystery of death.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Packer keeps the reader invested in her thought-provoking exploration of a marriage, as Eliot wonders why Claire doesn’t want him the most as the end of her life draws near. The author’s fans will relish this poignant novel.” — \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a cancer story; there will be tears. But it is also a love story, an affecting portrait of a long and happy marriage nearing its end.\" \u003cb\u003e— \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A rich, splintered narrative that 'illuminate[s] the unexpected depths of the commonplace.'\"— \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNPR.org\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Readers already know Ann Packer for her acutely sensitive novels of families in crisis, and her latest, \u003ci\u003eSome Bright Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e, . . . takes on the anguish of a long-married couple whose deathbed conversations raise profound questions about love, commitment, and sacrifice.\" — \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This novel will mean something to everyone, and for many it will mean so much it will be hard to look directly at…Packer beautifully weaves the things we have all gone through in some capacity, the generational patterns that make us who we are, that make us anxious or defensive or to what degree we handle hard things, while also painting a unique picture of \u003ci\u003ethis \u003c\/i\u003ecouple.” — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Some Bright Nowhere \u003c\/i\u003eis about the things we can't say and don't know about each other, as well as the collateral damage that a terminal disease can inflict on even the best of relationships. It's an odd, beautiful and absorbing little novel about one of the biggest subjects of them all.\" — \u003cb\u003eMaureen Corrigan, \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Packer specializes in domestic dramas that arise from tragic dilemmas for which there are no great solutions. . . . It feels like Packer has a deep understanding of the complex emotions she portrays in \u003ci\u003eSome Bright Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e. And like we’ve been given privileged access to a horrible situation we’d all like to keep confined to the pages of a book.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Minnesota Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Packer is highly skilled at creating dynamics where moral obligation to others and individual personalities intersect to create drama. . . . An involving read.” — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Extraordinary. Books like this are why I love reading. This novel about marriage and friendship and life and dying is a marvel.\" \u003cb\u003e—Elin Hilderbrand, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Academy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Five-Star Weekend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I couldn’t stop reading this heartbreaking, heart-expanding novel, and I wept at the end. Ann Packer writes with courage, humor and insight about what it means to be fully human and what we owe the people we love most. Unforgettable.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJ. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The Cliffs and Friends and Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Readers, you will shed tears and talk long into the night about this book. What can we ask of one another? What can we give? What is love in the face of death? Profound and moving and real, Packer has written another stirring account of the heart.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Less and Less Is Lost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Some Bright Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e is a devastating novel that miraculously floats with the light and life it carries. I read it feverishly; I lived and mourned with its characters.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAysegül Savas, author of Long Distance and The Anthropologists\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSome Bright Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e is an exquisite gem of a novel, shot through with luminous prose and profound insight into the human heart. Trust me: you’ve never read a novel about marriage—about sacrifice and selfishness and soul-mending hope—quite like this one. I loved it.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTania James, author of Loot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSome Bright Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel that draws you in deeply and holds you there. Ann Packer writes absorbingly about couples, together and apart, and about love, friendship, and the inevitability of saying goodbye. This is a heartbreaking novel that actually made me happy––happy to have known these characters and watched them work through the puzzle at the heart of the story, and to have lived with them in their world as long as I did. It’s a wonderful book.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A novel so psychologically insightful it feels dangerous, written in prose beautiful enough to get you drunk. Packer is at the height of her powers here, exploring terrain that feels distinctly new. A profoundly feminist book about the negotiations between men and women in marriage, about the work of caretaking, and about the pain and compromise of loving. A triumph.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRufi Thorpe, author of Margo's Got Money Troubles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most emotionally truthful novels I’ve read in years. Penetrating, humane, funny and wise. One of those rare books that once you’ve finished, comes with you for life.\" — \u003cb\u003eRachel Joyce, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Some Bright Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e is a searing and profoundly moving portrait of a marriage in extremis. Packer renders the untenable with such exquisite and aching clarity that the reading of this novel is as if living it.\" — \u003cb\u003eElizabeth McKenzie, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dog of the North\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Large Print","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48588042535141,"sku":"NP9780063474314","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063474314.jpg?v=1773961019","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/some-bright-nowhere-a-novel-isbn-9780063474314","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}