Still life with bread crumbs

By Anna Quindlen

Subjects: Self-acceptance, Women photographers, Family Saga, Self-discovery, Amerikanisches Englisch, Older women, Literature, Divorce, General, New York Times bestseller, Contemporary Women, Self-perception, FICTION, Literary, Fiction, Wilderness areas, City and town life, Life change events, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2014-02-16, Family life

Description: This novel begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the expensive world she knows in New York City, sublet her apartment, and move to a small, inexpensive cabin in the country, where her life falls into a quieter rhythm. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.