Anne Tyler's protagonists are commonly described as "unassuming," yet her readers know that these characters are flawed in that they assume too much. From the tranquil torment of young Ian Bedloe in SAINT MAYBE, to the repressive hesitancy ...
Presents a luminous novel brimming with funny and tender observations that cast a penetrating light on the American way, as seen from those born there and those still struggling to fit in.
In the course of a day spent with her husband of 28 years, Maggie Moran reviews and reconsiders her married life. While the two of them drive 90 miles north of their home in Baltimore to attend the funeral of the husband of Maggie's best fr...
Pauline and Michael, married in postwar Baltimore, are very different--Pauline is impulsive, Michael is hidebound--but Pauline tends to get her way. And Michael, of course, resents this. Anne Tyler traces the events of their long marriage, ...
Two very different families, the sprawling Donaldson clan, and the Iranian-immigrant Yazdans, both adopt Korean children at the same time, and soon, though they have nothing in common, their lives become intertwined. Anne Tyler chronicles t...
Anne Tyler's 15th novel takes us into the life of Rebecca and the noisy, rowdy, difficult members of the Davitch family. When Rebecca marries Joseph Davitch, she becomes the stepmother of his three kids, then has a daughter of her own. Her ...
The Spanish-language edition of the fourteenth novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist follows Barnaby Gaitlin, a loveable loser and occasional thief, as he tries to reform under the influence of a decent young woman. (General Fiction)
Evie's random act of carving the name of a local rock musician into her forehead with fingernail scissors results in inevitable changes in her life, including an engagement to the very same rock musician. She proceeds with a certain indiffe...
Beck Davitch looks back on her thirty-year marriage to Joe and her role as a mother and manager of the Open Arms, wondering if she is living the life she was meant to live and reconsidering her dedication to the family business.
Timothy Tugbottom likes his old pants, his old crib, his old bedtime story, and his old breakfast, until he realizes that new things, including sleepovers, can be good too.
Macon Leary, the middle-aged author of a series of books for armchair travellers, has recently had his grief over the murder of his son compounded by the breakup of his marriage. He begins to descend into obsessive behavior and must soon ta...
This second volume of stories chosen from the "New Stories from the South" collections, edited by Anne Tyler, includes work by Lucia Nevai, Stephanie Solieu, Clyde Edgerton, Pam Durban, and Max Steele.
Eighty-five-year-old Perla Tull recalls the desertion of her husband and her solo attempts to raise three children--Cody, Ezra, and Jenny--who must come to terms with themselves and their father after their mother's death. (General Fiction)
Anne Tyler's second novel, set in rural North Carolina, is about the accidental death of a 6-year-old girl, and the ways her family and neighbors try to cope with the devastation of the event.
Delia Grinstead, a 40-year-old mother of three almost-grown children, abandons her family impulsively in search of an entirely new life a few miles from home, becoming secretary to a lawyer. Gradually, she begins to return to her old life--...
