← Judith GuestSecond Heavenby Judith GuestInterconnected stories of troubled lives seeking escape and redemptionFind on Amazon↗About the authorJudith GuestJudith Guest wrote Ordinary People, a quietly devastating novel about a family's struggle to survive after the accidental death of a son, which won the National Book Award and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film by Robert Redford.More by Judith GuestOrdinary PeopleA suburban family's healing after a young son's suicide attempt→Killing Time in St. Cloud→Errands→The Tarnished Eye→