Ann Packer's new novel, "The Children's Crusade," recounts the story of the Blairs, a privileged, upper-middle-class family, in smooth, unsurprising, white-bread prose. But the Blairs' collective ...

Ann Packer’s “The Children’s Crusade” makes his marriage to Penny Greenway and their rearing of four children a perilous combat zone, a capacious window into a changing America, an astute ...

Ann Packer's new novel, The Children's Crusade, opens in California, on a scene that's so bedrock American, it's borderline corny. In the fall of 1954, a young Navy doctor newly discharged from ...

In her compelling new novel, Ann Packer explores five decades in the complicated lives of the Blair family. Focusing on what happens when children grow up with mismatched parents, she juggles ...

The family home looms large in Ann Packer’s affecting new novel about growing up, moving apart and letting go. Spanning five decades in the lives of the fictional Blair family, “The Children ...

Ann Packer’s “The Children’s Crusade” is now in paperback. The story centers around the Blair family of six, each dealing with their own internal struggles ...

The Children's Crusade (**** out of four), Ann Packer's absorbing novel about a California family, is suffused with parental love. Not the baby-powder-smell-and-miracle-of-life kind, but the ...

Ann Packer She discusses her new novel, The Children’s Crusade, with Nancy Pearl. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 Free Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 7pm Viet Thanh Nguyen His ...

Ann Packer is an expert at complicated relationships; she likes to show more than two sides to every story. Who’s responsible for the fracturing of the Blair family?

Ann Packers The Children's Crusade revolves around a difficult relationship between parents and children. Photo: ALICJA COLON/Unsplash.com (Royalty-free image, can use anywhere) ...

“Penny was an only child who for company during her school years had drawn pictures of the children she expected to bear,” author Ann Packer writes in this graceful, poignant novel.