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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 that’s how Joe Davitch she her 30-some years ago. And that’s why this large-spirited older man, a divorcee with three little girls, swept her into his orbit. Before she knew it, she was embracing his extended family (plus a child of their own) and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms where people paid to celebrate their family occasions in style. But can Beck (as she is known to the Davitch clan) really recover the person she left behind? A question that touches us all–and one that Anne Tyler explores with characteristic humor and wisdom in a novel one wishes would never end.
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 that’s how Joe Davitch she her 30-some years ago. And that’s why this large-spirited older man, a divorcee with three little girls, swept her into his orbit. Before she knew it, she was embracing his extended family (plus a child of their own) and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms where people paid to celebrate their family occasions in style. But can Beck (as she is known to the Davitch clan) really recover the person she left behind? A question that touches us all–and one that Anne Tyler explores with characteristic humor and wisdom in a novel one wishes would never end.
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Jann F. wrote on 7/26/2006...I enjoyed this story.
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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