Songs in Ordinary Time

A New York Times bestseller about a troubled family in 1960s Vermont. Set in the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont, Marie Fermoyle is raising three children on the edge of poverty with no help from her alcoholic ex-husband. Her seventeen-year-old daughter Alice becomes emotionally involved with a local priest, her son Norm is a hotheaded sixteen-year-old, and twelve-year-old Benjy is isolated and full of anxieties. When Marie meets Omar Duvall, a con man who talks about opportunities and riches, young Benjy may eventually reveal a disturbing secret that could shatter all her hopes. An Oprah's Book Club selection.