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The Good Daughters

A Novel

Joyce Maynard

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The Good Daughters
 

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• National Broadcast and Print Media Campaign
• California Regional Author Appearances
• Consumer Sweepstakes
• Blog Campaign, Including E-cards
• Pre-publication Online Buzz Campaign, Including Early Consumer Reads and Viral Video
• Cross-Promotions with the Trade Paperback Edition of Labor Day (8/10)
• Reading Group Guide Available Online at HarperCollins.com/Readers
• Reader’s Edition Available
• Author Website: JoyceMaynard.com

Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard has been a reporter for the New York Times, a magazine journalist, radio commentator, and syndicated columnist, as well as the author of six novels, including To Die For and Labor Day, and four books of nonfiction. Her bestselling memoir, At Home in the World, has been translated into nine languages. Her novel The Usual Rules—a story about surviving loss—has been a favorite of book club audiences of all ages, and was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books for Young Readers in 2003. The mother of three grown children, and two daughters recently adopted from Ethiopia, she makes her home in Mill Valley, CA.



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Backlist

Labor Day
Joyce Maynard
  • Trade PB
  • 9780061843419
  • 8/3/2010
  • $13.99 ($15.99 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
Labor Day LP
Joyce Maynard
  • Large Print
  • 9780061893926
  • 7/28/2009
  • $24.99 ($32.99 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
 

Also Available

The Good Daughters
The Good Daughters
Joyce Maynard
  • E-Book
  • 9780062006820
  • 8/24/2010
  • $19.99
The Good Daughters LP
Joyce Maynard
  • Large Print
  • 9780062002129
  • 8/24/2010
  • $24.99 ($28.99)
 

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"Maynard's spare prose packs a rich emotional punch...a can't put-it-down mystery."


- People on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS
"[Maynard] weav(es) a knotty tale of family secrets, told in the alternating voices of her likable main characters."


- Entertainment Weekly on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS
"The author's deft and delicate touch as she plumbs the depths of her characters' psyches is what will keep readers pinned to the page. It's like a conversation with friends about whose lives you crave every detail, simply because they are so dear to you. . . Maynard's simple language gorgeously interprets the book's themes. . . In Maynard's gifted hands, every sentence and step seems organic, as if she were just keenly observing these women and taking richly detailed notes on their lives."


- Dallas Morning News on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS
“The gentle rhythms of rural life, the granite landscape of New Hampshire, characters who exist so completely...Joyce Maynard draws me into the world of The Good Daughters, weaves a story of choices and events so intimate I felt I was part of it. The novel is wrenching, the emotions radiant, and will leave readers transformed.”
 


- Luanne Rice, author of The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners
"Absorbing."


- More Magazine on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS
"Maynard is a clever storyteller."


- Seattle Times on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS
"Vividly rendered."


- Tampa Tribune on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS
"An impressive writer...with a fine sense of time, of place, of humor."


- Buffalo News on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS
"Maynard steps back and allows her characters to tell the story of The Good Daughters. In alternating chapters the voices of Ruth and Dana are employed to create this mesmerizing tale of secrets and self-discovery. . . [Maynard] offers a fascinating account that will stay with the reader long after the book is put down."


- Wichita Falls Times Record Review on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS
"These gradations if kinship between lovers, parents and spouses are the everyday truths that make The Good Daughters worth reading. While all is finally revealed about what links the Planks and Dickersons, what will stay with you are the vibrant inner monologues of Ruth and Dana, words that give shape to love in all its forms."


- Austin American-Statesman on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS
"Unexpected and heartbreaking.. Arguably [Maynard's] best work yet."


- Minneapolis Star Tribune on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS
"The Good Daughters shows Maynard's strengths once again-particularly in vivid descriptions of farm life, geographies, and relationships of all kinds. Passions and psychological changes in a character over time ring most true."


- Providence Journal
"Rich and realistic . . . touching."


- Library Journal
"An evocative story . . . [Maynard] consistently brings emotional authenticity to the long arc of her characters' lives and to the joy and loss they experience. A profoundly moving chronicle of the primacy of family connection."


- Booklist on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS
"Exquisite . . . . [A] beautifully written book."


- Publishers Weekly (starred review) on THE GOOD DAUGTHERS