NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning
author--a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one
Baltimore family's foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the
1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild.
"A quietly subversive novel, tackling fundamental assumptions about
womanhood, motherhood and female aging." --Jennifer Haigh, New York
Times Book Review
The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of
1959. They hardly ever leave home, 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 humor 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.
