See, this chapter is about one of the women from the family at the center of this novel, and her going with her boyfriend to meet his parents. No, what I’m talking about is the opening chapter. Well, there are a lot of odd characters, but that’s par for the course for Tyler. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts’ influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation.”Īge: Adult Genres: Literary, Fiction Settings: Historical & Contemporary, USA – Baltimore Other Categories: Novel, Family Saga, Multiple Timelines.īefore I start into how much I enjoyed this book, let me tell you about the one odd thing about this novel. 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. Summary: “ The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. Book Review for “ French Braid” by Anne Tyler.
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