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Highlights
Quality
Heart warming and easy to fall in love with the characters
Theres a lot in the book that seems implausible pearl in denial after her husband left cody taking ezras hoydenish tomboy fian... Read More
Great character development intertwined with the story of a complicated and dysfunctional baltimore family
’ cody asked and luke had an image of cody’s reaching into a wild snarl of strings and tugging on the one short piece that wasn... Read More
Packaging/appearance
” jenny sees the first sign of her mother’s old age “the stringy tendons” and the “breakable bones
It’s the story of a family torn apart by the desertion of a parent the lasting damage done to each of the family members and ho... Read More
Competitiveness
I could really identify with cody except for the sibling rivalry
If only there were more writers of anne tylers caliber
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- This product had a total of 832 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 11 2020.
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Anne tyler takes a tiny detaila snippet of dialogue an article of clothing a metaphor a piece of furnitureand hangs a whole universe of meaning on it
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I got the feeling that jenny’s story had been rewritten but tyler hadn’t gone back to tidy up the loose ends
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Keeping in mind that tyler spent the first twothirds of the book describing the damage that results when a parent deserts a family it doesn’t seem realistic that jenny’s making it all work in her family
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Children grieve for a missing parent when the departure is abrupt as it was in this case
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The oldest child shows some sign of trauma but jenny just laughs it off
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In the last scene the table is set for fourteen and we’re told that joe shows up with three children–but even accounting for the baby the numbers don’t come out right
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The other thing that bothered me was that in the first half of the book tyler described every old person but particularly women in images that elicit disgust
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Here are some examplesstevin calls pearl an “old biddy” and says she “looks like a lizard
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