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Errands

Judith Guest

Ballantine Books, $24

Two decades after her success with “Ordinary People,” Guest’s latest novel once again explores the destructive effects of an untimely death upon a family. Keith is dying of cancer, a fate he accepts but which Annie, his wife, cannot. After he dies, Annie struggles through her grief to keep the family together.