French Braid (Paperback)

Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the beloved Pulitzer Prizewinning author of A Spool of Blue Threada funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore familys 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. The New York Times Book ReviewThe 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 closeyet how unknowableevery family is to itself. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.