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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

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    sad, through and good.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 832 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 11 2020.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I got the feeling that jenny’s story had been rewritten but tyler hadn’t gone back to tidy up the loose ends


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Children grieve for a missing parent when the departure is abrupt as it was in this case


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The oldest child shows some sign of trauma but jenny just laughs it off


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Here are some examplesstevin calls pearl an “old biddy” and says she “looks like a lizard

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