![]() 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. Yet, As These Lives Advance Across Decades, The Garretts' Influences On One Another Ripple Ineffably But Unmistakably Through Each Generation. Their Youngest, David, Is Already Intent On Escaping His Family's Orbit, For Reasons None Of Them Understands. Their Teenage Daughters, Steady Alice And Boy-crazy Lily, Could Not Have Less In Common. Mercy Has Trouble Resisting The Siren Call Of Her Aspirations To Be A Painter, Which Means Less Time Keeping House For Her Husband, Robin. They Hardly Ever Venture Beyond Baltimore, But In Some Ways They Have Never Been Farther Apart. It asks us to consider how much involvement in the lives of others is requisite or safe. This opening chapter is structurally and thematically necessary. The Garretts Take Their First And Last Family Vacation In The Summer Of 1959. Anne Tylers French Braid opens with a chapter set in 2010 - a chapter that can stand alone as a short story, complete - that serves as a microcosm for the novel and introduces its concerns. ![]() New York Times Best Seller A Funny, Joyful, Brilliantly Perceptive Journey Deep Into One Family's Foibles, From The 1950s Up To Our Pandemic Present. ![]()
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