French braid / Anne Tyler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tyler, Anne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generations.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Vacations--Fiction.

Vacations.

Generations--Fiction.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

243 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.

Summary:

"A major new novel from the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--a freshly observed, funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s up to our pandemic present. The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understands. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation. Full of heartbreak and hilarity, French Braid is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring, uncannily insightful novel of tremendous warmth and humour that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily lives, the impossibility of breaking free from those who love us, and how close--yet how unknowable--every family is to itself."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book" -- Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Tyler, Anne. French braid.

ISBN:

9780385698696

0385698690

9780593321096

059332109X

OCLC:

1269511180