It's the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations. How did the timeline in FRENCH BRAID amplify the realism of the characters How did cultural expectations for women evolve between Mercy’s generation and her children’s What stayed the same, even in a new millennium 5. Yet it is a clutter of untidy moments that forms the Garretts' family life over the decades, whether that's a painstaking Easter lunch or giving a child a ride, a fateful train journey or an unexpected homecoming and it all begins in 1959, with a family holiday to a cabin by a lake. A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler, Knopf Doubleday, 2016 Like French Braid, Tyler focuses on a single family around one Baltimore home over four generations. Anne Tyler explores the nature of time and memory in much of her fiction. Over at her studio, she wants space and silence. Summary: "When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone is determined not to notice. English fiction - American authors - 21st century 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 closeyet how unknowableevery family is to itself.Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus an imprint of Vintage, 2022 Description: 244 pages : 24 cm ISBN:
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