{"id":340,"date":"2010-12-15T16:18:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T20:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egstaffpicks.wordpress.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2015-04-08T19:42:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T19:42:41","slug":"the-widowers-tale-by-julia-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"The Widower&#8217;s Tale by Julia Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   alignleft wp-image-397\" title=\"The Widower's Tale\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/the-widowers-tale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seventy-year-old Percy Darling is an affable curmudgeon who enjoys swimming in his pond and cheerfully\u00a0criticizing\u00a0the neighbors in his well-to-do Massachusetts town.\u00a0 When he allows a high-end preschool to move into his barn, Percy finds his quiet routine shaken&#8211;in a way, he\u00a0realizes, that is not altogether unwelcome.\u00a0 Glass\u00a0gracefully\u00a0weaves\u00a0Percy&#8217;s\u00a0story with those of others in\u00a0his circle: Sarah &#8212;\u00a0Percy&#8217;s new love interest, Percy&#8217;s daughters Clover and Trudy and environmentalist grandson\u00a0Robert, Celestino &#8212;\u00a0 an immigrant worker with connections to a prominent academic family, and Ira, a preschool teacher longing for acceptance.\u00a0 The result is a compelling, memorable read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-year-old Percy Darling is an affable curmudgeon who enjoys swimming in his pond and cheerfully\u00a0criticizing\u00a0the neighbors in his well-to-do Massachusetts town.\u00a0 When he allows a high-end preschool to move into his barn, Percy finds his quiet routine shaken&#8211;in a way, he\u00a0realizes, that is not altogether unwelcome.\u00a0 Glass\u00a0gracefully\u00a0weaves\u00a0Percy&#8217;s\u00a0story with those of others in\u00a0his circle: Sarah &#8212;\u00a0Percy&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Widower&#8217;s Tale by Julia Glass<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-elizabeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}