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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? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or is it someone else’s?
On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation—something she slipped into even before finishing college, when Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family’s crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was the family business. What caught his fancy was that she seemed to be having such a wonderful time. Soon this large-spirited older man, a divorcé with three little girls, swept her into his orbit, and before she knew it she was embracing his extended family plus a child of their own, and hosting endless parties in the ornate,...
A universe so consistent, so familiar, so perfectly delineated in all its mildness that the most startling thing is the pleasure it provides.
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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Louis Manitowabi
reviewed Back When We Were Grownups on March 21, 2018
Back When We Were Grownups
Anne Tyler's novels are always enjoyable to me, not because they are necessarily happy stories'because sometimes they are quite sad but in a true-to-life kind of way. But rather because her stories are real. I've said this before in reviews of her books, but she is so observant and is able to capture moments in her stories, whether between characters or just in one's head, that make me stop and think, "Oh wow, I've definitely thought that" or "That is totally something we would do!" I can picture her characters walking right off the page, and whether you like the characters or not, you can't deny that they are like people you know or can imagine being in your life. This story was no exception to all of that, and I loved Rebecca as a main character. Her authenticity and vulnerability was admirable, and she was a delight to read about.
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