French Braid

Resumen del libro

The major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author -- a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to the changed world of today

When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone is determined not to notice.

Over at her studio, she wants space and silence. She won't allow any family clutter.

Not even their cat, Desmond.

Yet it is a clutter of untidy moments that forms the Garretts' family life over the decades, whether that's a painstaking Easter lunch or giving a child a ride, a fateful train journey or an unexpected homecoming.

And it all begins in 1959, with a family holiday to a cabin by a lake.

It's the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations.

'Exquisitely crafted, tender, hilarious, devastatingly precise, I loved this powerful meditation on the small and often unvoiced moments that can make up a life' RACHEL JOYCE

'Such joyous immersion, I lost myself, and loved this superbly imperfect family' TESSA HADLEY

'A faultless novel, effortlessly profound. I read it in two sittings, totally immersed' VICTORIA HISLOP

'If Anne Tyler isn't the best writer in the world, who is?' BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR
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Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Anne Tylerx{0026}lt;/B , nacida en Minneapolis en 1941, es autora de numerosas novelas, entre la que destacan x{0026}lt;I Buscando a Calebx{0026}lt;/I (1975), x{0026}lt;I El tránsito de Morganx{0026}lt;/I (1980), x{0026}lt;I Reunión en el restaurante Nostalgiax{0026}lt;/I (PEN/Faulkner Award 1983, publicada por Lumen en 2012), x{0026}lt;I Ejercicios respiratoriosx{0026}lt;/I (Premio Pulitzer 1989), x{0026}lt;I El turista accidental x{0026}lt;/I (National Book Critics Circle Award 1986, que fue llevada a la gran pantalla), x{0026}lt;I Cuando éramos mayores x{0026}lt;/I (2001), x{0026}lt;I El matrimonio amateurx{0026}lt;/I (elegida por x{0026}lt;I The New York Times x{0026}lt;/I como uno de los libros más destacados de 2004), x{0026}lt;I Propios y extrañosx{0026}lt;/I (2006), x{0026}lt;I La brújula de Noé x{0026}lt;/I (2007), x{0026}lt;I El hombre que dijo adiós x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2013), x{0026}lt;I El hilo azulx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2016, elegida como mejor novela del mes por Amazon), x{0026}lt;I Corazón de vinagrex{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2017), x{0026}lt;I El baile del reloj x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2019), x{0026}lt;I Una sala llena de corazones rotos x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2021), y x{0026}lt;I Historia de una trenza x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2022) y x{0026}lt;I Tres días de junio x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2025). Es miembro de la American Academy of Art and Letters. Actualmente vive con su familia en Baltimore, donde están ambientadas casi todas sus obras.x{0026}lt;/P