Book Excerpt:
"From the beloved best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author—a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family's foibles, from 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 home, but they have never been farther apart in some ways. 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.
Full of heartbreak and hilarity, French Braid is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring, uncannily insightful novel of tremendous warmth and humor that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily lives, the impossibility of breaking free from those who love us, and how close—yet how unknowable—every family is to itself."
Title: French Braid
Author: Anne Tyler
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Knopf
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: 4
Review:
"French Braid" by Anne Tyler
My Assessment:
"French Braid" was just a read about the Garrett family for three generations starting in 1959 and goes through the ending of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. I loved how this author brought the pandemic into the story. This family consisted of the father [Robin], mother [Mercy], and three children... Alice, the oldest, Lily, and David. We follow this family through decades was like a 'French Braid' that has been unraveled, showing where each character had their 'way to fulfilling their impulses, therefore many times unwilling to conform their desires when it came to the cost of the others members in the family...that's how families work.'
The author gives the reader quite a read as the story goes through years in the lives of this family from marriage, weddings, births, successes with lots of changes coming from and bringing on disagreements, and misconceptions, spoken and unspoken. But still showing there was a love of the family that did bind them somehow. So be ready as the reader will be shown definite details and peculiarities of some of these characters.
The story will leave one being able to resonate quite a bite from this story of what went on in this Garrett family and just how close they were. But, I still had a feeling whether the Garrett family were truly happy or not?
Thank you very much to Knopf Doubleday and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest opinion.
Author: Anne Tyler
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Knopf
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: 4
Review:
"French Braid" by Anne Tyler
My Assessment:
"French Braid" was just a read about the Garrett family for three generations starting in 1959 and goes through the ending of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. I loved how this author brought the pandemic into the story. This family consisted of the father [Robin], mother [Mercy], and three children... Alice, the oldest, Lily, and David. We follow this family through decades was like a 'French Braid' that has been unraveled, showing where each character had their 'way to fulfilling their impulses, therefore many times unwilling to conform their desires when it came to the cost of the others members in the family...that's how families work.'
The author gives the reader quite a read as the story goes through years in the lives of this family from marriage, weddings, births, successes with lots of changes coming from and bringing on disagreements, and misconceptions, spoken and unspoken. But still showing there was a love of the family that did bind them somehow. So be ready as the reader will be shown definite details and peculiarities of some of these characters.
The story will leave one being able to resonate quite a bite from this story of what went on in this Garrett family and just how close they were. But, I still had a feeling whether the Garrett family were truly happy or not?
Thank you very much to Knopf Doubleday and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest opinion.
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