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Search - Back When We Were Grownups
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Back When We Were Grownups Author: An irresistible new novel from Anne Tyler. — At 53, Rebecca Davitch–mistress of the Open Arms, a crumbling 19th-century row house in Baltimore where giving parties is the family business–suddenly asks herself whether she has turned into the wrong person. Is she really this natural-born celebrator, joyous and outgiving? — Certainly tha... more »
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I enjoyed listening to the life of Rebecca and the noisy, rowdy, difficult members of the Davitch family. When Rebecca marries Joseph Davitch, she becomes the stepmother of his three kids, then has a daughter of her own. Her husband dies in a car crash, after which yet more Davitches come to live with her. Somehow, Rebecca--in the midst of her own troubles--holds it all together, but, she begins to suspect, at the cost of her own self.
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- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary
- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( T ) >> Tyler, Anne