French braid / Anne Tyler ; read by Kimberly Farr.
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SoundPublisher: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2022]Copyright date: ℗2022Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 8 CDs (9 hr., 4 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in containerContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781038611420Subject(s): Families -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Vacations -- FictionGenre/Form: Audiobooks. | Domestic fiction. Read by Kimberly Farr.Summary: From the beloved Pulitzer Prize winning author Anne Tyler comes a freshly observed, funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s up to our pandemic present. When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone is determined not to notice. Over at her studio, she wants space and silence. She won't allow any family clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond. Yet it is a clutter of untidy moments that forms the Garretts' family life over the decades, whether that's a painstaking Easter lunch or giving a child a ride, a fateful train journey or an unexpected homecoming. And it all begins in 1959, with a family holiday to a cabin by a lake. It's the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations.
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From the beloved Pulitzer Prize winning author Anne Tyler comes a freshly observed, funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s up to our pandemic present. When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone is determined not to notice. Over at her studio, she wants space and silence. She won't allow any family clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond. Yet it is a clutter of untidy moments that forms the Garretts' family life over the decades, whether that's a painstaking Easter lunch or giving a child a ride, a fateful train journey or an unexpected homecoming. And it all begins in 1959, with a family holiday to a cabin by a lake. It's the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations.
Read by Kimberly Farr.
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