When a parent’s attack sends traumatized teacher Chelsea Garden fleeing home to the California foothills, her life tangles with a beleaguered principal and an old flame. Following three educators at different stages, it’s a novel about the calling of teaching and the courage to change course.
Why it’s here: One of its three educators is a veteran principal in the last chapter of her career, weighing reinvention in her later working years — an older woman’s story threaded through an ensemble.
