French braid / Anne Tyler.
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TextPublisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Edition: Large print editionDescription: 327pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780593556603Subject(s): Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Vacations -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books. | Domestic fiction. Summary: 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 understand. 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.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Adult Fiction Large Print | Northam | F TYL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111087848501 |
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 understand. 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.
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