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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a "funny, heart-hammering, wise" (The New York Times) portrait of a family that will remind you why to read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love (PEOPLE).... Read Full Overview

* One of the Daily Telegraph's 100 GREATEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME *

A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.THE BOSTON GLOBEPearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they... Read Full Overview

Abandoned by her wanderlusting husband, stoic Pearl raised her three children on her own. Now grown, the siblings are inextricably linked by their memories-- some painful--which hold them together despite their differences. Hardened by life's disappointments, wealthy and charismatic... Read Full Overview

"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read."THE BOSTON GLOBEPearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they... Read Full Overview

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Abandoned by her wanderlusting husband, stoic Pearl raised her three children on her own. Now grown, the siblings are inextricably linked by their memories-- some painful--which hold them together despite their differences. Hardened by life's disappointments, wealthy and charismatic... Read Full Overview

A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.THE BOSTON GLOBEPearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they... Read Full Overview