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by Jane Smiley
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When the patriarch's funeral reunites the Langdon family in 1953, none of them are aware of the profound changes that await them in the coming years. By now, Walter and Rosanna's sons and daughters have grown up and have children of their own. Frank, the eldest, restless and unhappy, ignores his troubled wife and becomes distracted by a figure from the past. Lillian watches as her brilliant and eccentric husband, Arthur, self-destructs under the weight of guilt for his secret government work. Claire discovers that marriage isn't quite what she expected. Back in Iowa, where the Langdons began, Joe, the only one who stays to work the land, sees that some aspects of farm life remain unchanged, while others become unrecognizable. And while some family members remain trapped in the past, others will try to leave behind the world they've always known and thrive like never before.
The lives of the Langdons are inextricably linked to the course of a nation that embraces postwar optimism until it encounters the tensions of the Cold War, a nation that will experience the social and sexual revolutions of the sixties and seventies, and later the unprecedented wealth – for some – of the early eighties, not forgetting the dark shadow of the Vietnam War, which looms over them all... In sickness and in health, in the best and worst of times, the Langdon family will live, love, and suffer under the merciless passage of three decades of American history.
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RELEASE DATE
February 16, 2026
ISBN
9788410249622
PAGES
596 p. ; 23,0 cm.
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Paperback
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