

Maynard has created an ensemble of characters that will sneak into your heart, and warm it while it breaks., Labor Day is suffused with tenderness, dreaminess and love.first and foremost a page-turner. It's a powerful, poignant mix in the hands of author Joyce Maynard and a novel no one should miss., Labor Day is both a coming-of-age story and a love story- a tale of profound loss, redemption and soul searching that is not to be missed., The novel is an extended meditation on the nature of love, grief and loneliness. Maynard gets inside the head of an adolescent boy who is grappling with his own identity and the mysteries of sex (while revealing the secrets of making perfect pie crust)., Labor Day is a startling novel of love, friendship, trust, treachery, betrayal, and the deep lessons that we learn in life.
