Summer Before

Ruth Calloway is fifty-one and her husband has been leaving for years. She knows this the way you know things you can't say aloud — gradually, then all at once. She has her lake, her garden, the particular quiet of a woman who has made her peace with what she has.Then a girl arrives for the summer. Margot is nineteen and managing something she has no name for. Ruth doesn't ask what it is. She's sp...