The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

The Newbery Medal–winning author of A Wrinkle in Time reflects on the bonds between mothers and daughters—and the inescapable effects of time—in this memoir.

In the second memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, Madeleine L'Engle chronicles a season of extremes. Four generations of family have gathered at Crosswicks, her Connecticut farmhouse, to care for L'Engle's ninety-year-old mother. As summer days fade to sleepless nights, her mother's health rapidly declines and her once astute mind slips ...