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"Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment." -The New York Times"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read."-The Boston GlobePearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the older son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet, clumsy Ezra, Pearl's favorite, who never stops yearning for the perfect family that could never be his own.Now Pearl and her three grown children have gathered together again-with anger, hope, and a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell."A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well."-Newsweek"Anne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today."-Chicago Tribune"In her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power."-John Updike, The New Yorker"Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love."-Cosmopolitan
About the Author
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 1988. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
