Joyce Maynard writes literary and domestic fiction, memoir and psychological suspense, often focusing on families altered by secrecy, desire or sudden loss. Labor Day follows a lonely mother and her teenage son after an escaped prisoner enters their home and a tense hostage situation develops into something more intimate. To Die For uses the voice of an ambitious young woman whose hunger for television fame becomes connected to murder, while The Good Daughters follows two women born on the same day whose families remain linked across decades. Maynard’s memoir At Home in the World recounts her early writing life and her relationship with J. D. Salinger, making autobiography another significant strand of her catalogue. Her prose is accessible and character-led, moving between family drama and darker psychological material. Her books belong to domestic fiction, psychological suspense and literary memoir. Read more Less
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