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National Book Award finalist Patricia Henley captivates us with this engrossing novel of a woman whose long-held secret will transform her life and her marriage.

From all appearances, Ruth Anne Bond is enviably lucky. Her husband, Johnny, still treats her like a young lover. Her grown daughter is a staunch friend. Her steady work and devotion to the church have quietly made her a pillar of the community. Then one long Indiana summer brings some unexpected communiqués—including one she has both craved and feared for thirty years. As long-hidden truths threaten to emerge, for the first time in her marriage Ruth Anne is faced with memories she and Johnny never discuss: of a year spent in Saigon in 1968—and a past she has yet to acknowledge. Probing questions of family and faith, Patricia Henley offers us a tender, far-sighted novel about seeking answers and achieving grace.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

"Sentimental, but readable and sincere all the same."

Kirkus, 07/01/2002

"Patricia Henley's second novel...affords the pleasure of reading about pleasant people....Henley writes beautifully about the dreads and satisfactions of midlife....Insights...almost compensate for the piling-on of 'Oprah' topics that swamp this otherwise thoughtful novel."

Carol Doup Muller, New York Times Book Review, 10/13/2002

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