cover image Walking the Distance

Walking the Distance

Marian Thurm. Penguin Books, $6.95 (28pp) ISBN 978-0-14-010756-2

Happily married Laura meetsand falls in love witha man who is dying of cancer. Meanwhile, her 85-year-old grandmother is trying to decide whether having a man in bed at night is worth putting up with him during the day. PW found this ""sad and lovely'' book ``continually absorbing.'' (June)