The Widower's TaleNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Three Junes: Seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement—reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. But his routines are disrupted when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 39 |
Section 3 | 57 |
Section 4 | 86 |
Section 5 | 135 |
Section 6 | 157 |
Section 7 | 174 |
Section 8 | 190 |
Section 13 | 299 |
Section 14 | 316 |
Section 15 | 334 |
Section 16 | 357 |
Section 17 | 372 |
Section 18 | 385 |
Section 19 | 392 |
Section 20 | 407 |
Section 9 | 221 |
Section 10 | 236 |
Section 11 | 269 |
Section 12 | 287 |
Section 21 | 427 |
Section 22 | 438 |
Section 23 | 467 |
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