Like Normal People

"Bender has crafted a luminous, meditative novel on the boundaries between childhood, adulthood, and old age." -Entertainment Weekly

A tour de force of literary craft and emotional resonance, Like Normal People charts a family constellation that revolves around an off-kilter center: Lena, who is forty-eight but mentally locked in childhood. Moving deftly between present and past, the novel follows Lena's day-long escape from her residential home with her troubled twelve-year-old niece. While...