French Braid A novel
French Braid by Anne Tyler is a novel published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on February 21, 2023. This 256-page book explores the complexities of family dynamics through the lens of the Garrett family, beginning with their first and last vacation in the summer of 1959. The narrative delves into the lives of Mercy, her husband Robin, and their three children, highlighting their individual aspirations and struggles while revealing the subtle connections that bind them across generations.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of family life, focusing on themes such as sibling relationships and the challenges of womanhood and motherhood. As the story unfolds, it captures both the humor and heartache inherent in familial bonds, illustrating how the Garretts’ influences ripple through time. French Braid presents a thoughtful examination of the kindnesses and cruelties that shape our daily lives, offering insights into the complexities of love and understanding within a family.
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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.
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