Forgive: A Novel

Life is a complicated business with no simple fix for damage done, casually or intentionally. In the face of her ex-husband’s need for forgiveness, Ruth wonders about its presence, or absence, in the important relationships of her life, the different things it represents to different people and what it really means to her.

People often take refuge in Ruth’s friendship. On one level, she is uneasy in the role of mother figure, dispensing home comforts to the motley group working out their own...