French Braid

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ΓÇó From the beloved Pulitzer PrizeΓÇôwinning authorΓÇöa funny,joyfulbrilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore familyΓÇÖs foiblesfrom a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild in our pandemic present. The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave homebut in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painterwhich means less time keeping house for her husbandRobin. Their teenage daughterssteady Alice and boy-crazy Lilycould not have less in common. Their youngestDavidis already intent on escaping his family’s orbitfor reasons none of them understand. Yetas these lives advance across decadesthe Garretts’ influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation. Full of heartbreak and hilarityFrench Braid is classic Anne Tyler: a stirringuncannily insightful novel of tremendous warmth and humor that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily livesthe impossibility of breaking free from those who love usand how closeΓÇöyet how unknowableΓÇöevery family is to itself.