Sweeping in scope but intimate in detail, Ellen Baker's fiction portrays the lives of ordinary people with humor, passion and poignancy, exploring the complexities of family relationships and the ways in which everyday people are affected by world events, revealing that all human experience is interconnected and that even the most ordinary lives possess truly extraordinary qualities.
A Heartland Bestseller, Booksense Notable Pick,
and one of the Chicago Tribune's "best books of the year."
