The Joy That Should Be

A moving and provocative novel about a woman rediscovering her place in the world.

Cassandra Tradd is a woman who knows her place.

For more than twenty years, she’s occupied the same pew at the First Baptist church, filled the same water glasses at her mother-in-law's Sunday suppers, and kept the library in Belle Glade, Florida, running. She has two grown children and an adoring, patient man who cooks dinner for her every week. But by the end of one tumultuous summer, Cass is no longer comfo...