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French braid / Anne Tyler.

By: Publisher: [Toronto] : Bond Street Books, [2022]Description: 243 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0385698690
  • 9780385698696
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • FIC
Summary: A journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s up to our pandemic present. The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, 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 understands. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Fiction Flesherton Branch Shelves FIC Tyler (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 32241001141946
Fiction Kimberley Branch Shelves FIC Tyler (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 36990002032274
Fiction Markdale Branch Shelves FIC Tyler (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 10/01/2024 33436003149777

A journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s up to our pandemic present. The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, 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 understands. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation.

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