"The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways, they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation."--…mehr
"The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways, they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation."--
ANNE TYLER, nacida en Minneapolis en 1941, es autora de numerosas novelas, entre la que destacan Buscando a Caleb (1975), El tránsito de Morgan (1980), Reunión en el restaurante Nostalgia (PEN/Faulkner Award 1983, publicada por Lumen en 2012), Ejercicios respiratorios (Premio Pulitzer 1989), El turista accidental (National Book Critics Circle Award 1986, que fue llevada a la gran pantalla), Cuando éramos mayores (2001), El matrimonio amateur (elegida por The New York Times como uno de los libros más destacados de 2004), Propios y extraños (2006), La brújula de Noé (2007), El hombre que dijo adiós (Lumen, 2013), El hilo azul (Lumen, 2016), Corazón de vinagre (Lumen, 2017), El baile del reloj (Lumen, 2019), Una sala llena de corazones rotos (Lumen, 2021), y también Historia de una trenza (Lumen, 2022). Es miembro de la American Academy of Art and Letters. Actualmente vive con su familia en Baltimore, donde están ambientadas casi todas sus obras.
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