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I haven't read anything by Maynard before, but she's certainly on my list of authors to read more of now. This story, which I easily devoured in a lazy day at home, is touching o...more...]]> 6256570 9780061843 349 138 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248717256m/6256570.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6256570.Labor_Day 0 0 false Wed Sep 09 11:13:07 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 11:13:51 -0700 2009
Chance meeting with a stranger transforms three lives
Review by Deborah Donovan

Joyce Maynard’s novels are beloved for their compelling and carefully drawn characters, and this—her sixth—carries on that tradition, with three characters whose li...more...]]> 6256570 9780061843 349 138 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248717256m/6256570.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6256570.Labor_Day 5 0 false Sat Aug 01 22:06:17 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 22:13:08 -0700 2009
I think this is a little gem of a book. When you're tired of just another story, this is the book for you, because it is definitely not just another story. Utterly unique and charming, I was quickly pulled into this quirky meeting of lost souls. And, in the most unlikely of pl...more...]]> 6261961 0061843407 9780061843402 43 21 3.82 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6261961.Labor_Day_A_Novel 5 2 false Thu Jul 30 13:32:48 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 13:44:01 -0700 2009
Read in June, 2009
This is the best novel I've read since The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and expect it will be the best I'll read this year. Labor Day focuses on six days around the end-of-summer holiday and similarly marks transition as the 13-year-old narrator ...more...]]> 6256570 9780061843 349 138 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248717256m/6256570.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6256570.Labor_Day 3 1 false Fri Sep 11 14:53:28 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 14:43:50 -0700 2009 This may be the answer Henry has hoped for...someone to bring her mother out o...more...]]> 6256570 9780061843 349 138 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248717256m/6256570.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6256570.Labor_Day 4 1 false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 03:05:42 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 22:53:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6256570 9780061843 349 138 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248717256m/6256570.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6256570.Labor_Day 5 0 false Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 17:12:39 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 18:59:18 -0700 2009
For Henry, the 13 ...more...]]> 6256570 9780061843 349 138 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248717256m/6256570.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6256570.Labor_Day 4 0 false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 16:19:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 13:54:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6261961 0061843407 9780061843402 43 21 3.82 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6261961.Labor_Day_A_Novel 5 0 false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 07:11:47 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 07:36:41 -0700 2009
Living in a small New Hampshire town, Henry is miserably aware of h...more...]]> 6256570 9780061843 349 138 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248717256m/6256570.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6256570.Labor_Day 5 0 false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 00:54:33 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 14:37:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6256570 9780061843 349 138 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248717256m/6256570.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6256570.Labor_Day 5 0 true Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 03:33:39 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 08:51:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6261961 0061843407 9780061843402 43 21 3.82 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6261961.Labor_Day_A_Novel 3 0 false Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 11:19:15 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 21:05:13 -0700 2009 Henry lives with his mother, Adele,...more...]]> 6261961 0061843407 9780061843402 43 21 3.82 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6261961.Labor_Day_A_Novel 3 0 false Sat Oct 03 07:12:40 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 08:27:44 -0700 2009 Atonement, charmed the critics. But these same reviewers also pointed ou...more...]]> 6261961 0061843407 9780061843402 43 21 3.82 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6261961.Labor_Day_A_Novel 5 0 false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 08:40:44 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 08:18:29 -0700 2009
Henry is much more mature than your average 13 year old boy, but at the same time he is innocent and naive. Frank and Adele are both tortu...more...]]> 6256570 9780061843 349 138 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248717256m/6256570.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6256570.Labor_Day 3 2 false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 19:03:40 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 16:59:17 -0700 2009 Labor Day is a very quick read. In fact, I read it just this afternoon after hiking. A suspicious stranger, who turns out to be an escaped prisoner, approaches a young boy and his mother for a ride while they're out shopping. They take him in, he offers to help...more...]]> 6261961 0061843407 9780061843402 43 21 3.82 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6261961.Labor_Day_A_Novel 4 0 false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 21:32:21 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 15:31:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6261961 0061843407 9780061843402 43 21 3.82 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6261961.Labor_Day_A_Novel 3 0 false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 13:19:06 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 21:50:00 -0700 2009 1
...more...]]> 6256570 9780061843 349 138 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248717256m/6256570.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6256570.Labor_Day 5 1 false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 07:19:18 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 22:23:44 -0700 2009 Labor Day is such a family day. It is idylic in American life; it is the last breath of that carefree Summer. Except there is nothing carefree about Henry and his family and Labor Day changes their lives.

A sad ad...more...]]> 6256570 9780061843 349 138 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248717256m/6256570.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6256570.Labor_Day 4 1 false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 15:20:02 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 09:31:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6256570 9780061843 349 138 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248717256m/6256570.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6256570.Labor_Day 4 0 false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 18:22:16 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 07:55:36 -0700 2009
There were some things in the book that made be uncomfortable for very persona...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6261961