Errands: A Novel

Judith Guest is the author of Ordinary People and Second Heaven. She lives in Edina, Minnesota, and Harrisville, Michigan.

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Cherry Jones has appeared on Broadway in Night of the Iguana, Our Country's Good, and The Heiress, for which she won a Tony Award.  Her film work includes roles in Housesitter and Light of Day and she has appeared on television in Spencer for Hire.

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As bestselling author of the critically acclaimed masterpiece Ordinary People, Judith Guest knows the subtle rhythms of family life.  Now, in her luminous new novel, Errands, Guest once again gives us an unforgettable family that finds the fabric of their lives unraveling.

Keith, Annie's husband of 17 years, is dying of cancer. It is a fate he has accepted.  Annie however cannot, will not accept it.  And, after Keith's death, she finds her entire world turned upside down.

Consumed with grief, mounting bills, everyday tasks that seem insurmountable, and three kids that have become nagging source of frustration, Annie fails to see that the family is beginning to come apart.  It takes a second threatening event to transform both the children and Annie, teaching them that, even with the loss of Keith, they are still a family - a different family, but one that is no