Ordinary Love and Good Will

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres-and "one of her generation's most eloquent chroniclers of ordinary familial love" (The New York Times)-comes two exquisite twin novellas that chronicle the difficult choices that reshape the lives of two very different families.

In Ordinary Love, Smiley focuses on a woman's infidelity and the lasting, indelible effects it leaves on her children long after her departure. Good Will portrays a father who realizes how his son has been a...