The Wide House: A Novel

The New York Times–bestselling family saga of passion and greed in the decade before the Civil War, from theacclaimed author of Captains and the Kings.

The Wide House is the story of two cousins from Ireland: Stuart Coleman, a shopkeeper who dreams of building a big white house and raising a family, and Janie Cauder, a young widow with four children, only one of whom she truly adores. When Janie arrives in Grandeville, New York, the two begin a surprising romance—but happiness is not to be t...