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French braid / Anne Tyler.

by Tyler, Anne.

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Random House Large Print, 2022.

Families -- Fiction.

Vacations -- Fiction.

Conflict of generations -- Fiction.

9780593556603 (large print pbk.)

1st large print ed.

327 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.

"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. 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 close -- yet how unknowable -- every family is to itself."--Publisher.

Domestic fiction.

Literary fiction.

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