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Streicker Center: Joyce Maynard: Women on the Move

Few writers have had more personal experience with holding on and letting go than bestselling author Joyce Maynard. Commissioned by The New York Times Magazine to write a cover story when she was still a freshman at Yale, she then dropped out to live with iconoclastic literary hermit J. D. Salinger. Over time, she bought a farmhouse in New Hampshire; reported for The New York Times; wrote a nationally syndicated column on families; married twice; moved to San Francisco; produced three memoirs, 10 novels, four children’s books and a true-crime thriller — and went back to Yale as a sophomore 48 years after she quit.

In her latest novel, Count the Ways, Maynard explores the struggle between the forces that connect and those that repel through the story of a marriage fractured by a horrific accident. In depicting a single family confronting the painful if essential truths of their past, she has produced an achingly poignant novel about home, love and forgiveness . . . of holding on and letting go.