NATIONAL BEST SELLER • TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
FOR USA TODAY • ONE OF THE BEST
BOOKS OF THE YEAR. O Magazine, Christian Science Monitor,
Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Times (London)
A charming new novel of self-discovery and second chances from the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread.
A charming new novel of self-discovery and second chances from the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread.
Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize
“It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. .
.” This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how
she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are
one of those families that radiate togetherness.
Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us
an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of
Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies.
Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny.
Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny.
Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel
in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the
death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent
appearances—in their house, on the roadway, in the market.
From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and
deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been
forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase
of his life.
Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him.
Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him.
Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel–a
story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born
Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally
come to terms with her “outsiderness.”
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport – the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam’s fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian wife.
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport – the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam’s fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian wife.
From the inimitable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel about a
mismatched marriage—and its consequences, spanning three
generations.
They seemed like the perfect couple—young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away), walked into his mother’s grocery store, Michael was smitten.
They seemed like the perfect couple—young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away), walked into his mother’s grocery store, Michael was smitten.
"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had
turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this
irresistible new novel.
The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life.
The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life.
