Ordinary Love and Good Will Author:Jane Smiley Contains the two novellas Ordinary Love and Good Will. — Ordinary Love — At a reunion with her grown children, a woman recalls the long-ago affair that ended her relationship with their father -- and changed all their lives irrevocably. — Good Will — Despite the carefully self-sufficient life he has designed for h... more »is small family, a man discovers that even the right choices have unexpected consequences -- sometimes heart-breaking ones.« less
Two novellas in one book: "With this volume, Jane Smiley ratifies her claim as one of her generation's most eloquent chroniclers of ordinary familial love."
The New York Times