Anne Tyler, born in Minnesota but now settled in Baltimore, is a well-established writer who has enjoyed much critical and popular success. If Morning Ever Comes , in 1964, but did not attract much attention until her fifth book, Celestial Navigation , in 1974. Her fiction is filled with displaced persons who persist stubbornly in their own destinies. They are oddballs, visionaries, lonely souls, but she has a way of transcribing their peculiarities with such loving wholeness that when we examine them we keep finding more and more pieces of ourselves. When We Were Grownups , is to be released this month.
Early reviews are resoundingly positive.
So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel. After presiding over a disastrous family picnic, Rebecca is caught unawares by the question of who she really is. How she answers it how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been is the story told in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel. Check out the many works of Anne Tyler at the Delphi Public Library.