Back When We Were Grownups
In this razor-sharp novel, Anne Tyler explores unsettling questions of love, loss, identity and family, and moving with breathtaking assurance between heartbreak and hilarity, asks us all to consider: Can one ever recover the person one has left behind?
When Rebecca first met Joe Davitch at an engagement party at his family home, he was a man of the world, a divorceé with three young daughters. It wasn't long before Rebecca was swept into the Davitch orbit: marrying Joe, becoming the de facto proprietress of his family's business--the Open Arms--and hosting lavish celebrations at the crumbling nineteenth century Davitch home. Six years into their marriage, Rebecca is widowed by Joe's death in a car accident, but nevertheless carries on fulfilling her…
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June 12, 2018
ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Her twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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