Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard has written novels, memoirs, essays, and journalism across a career that began with magazine publication in her teens. Count the Ways is a multigenerational family novel centered on Eleanor, Cam, and their children in New Hampshire. It traces a marriage from early happiness through a family crisis, separation, and the long consequences of choices made by parents and children. William Morrow issued it in 2021. Maynard later continued Eleanor's story in How the Light Gets In, released in 2024. This sequel relationship makes Count the Ways the opening movement of a larger family history, while the first novel remains focused on memory, responsibility, estrangement, and the difficult work of rebuilding connection over decades.