French Braid (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780593321096)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread--a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family's 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 Review

The 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 close--yet how unknowable--every family is to itself.

Author: Anne Tyler
ISBN-10: 059332109X
ISBN-13: 9780593321096
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2022
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.60w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2021 pg. 8
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2022
Publishers Weekly 01/17/2022
Booklist 01/01/2022 pg. 34
BookPage 04/01/2022