Errands

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 seventeen years, is dying of cancer. It is a fate he has accepted. Annie, however, can not — will not — accept it. She finds her entire world turned upside down after Keith's death.

Consumed with grief, mounting bills, everyday tasks that seem insurmountable, and three kids that have become nagging sources of frustration, Annie fails to see that the family is beginning to come apart. It takes another threatening event for them to learn that even with the loss of Keith, they are still a family — a different family, but one that is no less loving, real, and enduring than they had been with a father and husband in the house.