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I guess it isn't possible to give a book less than 1/2 of a star.

When I think of the absolute WORST BOOK I have ever SUFFERED through in my 40 plus years of avid reading this book jumps right to the top!

When I read a book I want at least ONE character that I can like, that I can cheer for, that I can care what happens to! This book did not have such a character - NOT ONE. It has a totally disfunctional family, none of which like each other - NO SURPRISE there!! No one would like these people. As I got further and further into this book I just wanted them all to die, (no that isn't HORRIBLE - this is FICTION REMEMBER) so that I could get them out of the book and so that the book could end! They were all so miserable anyway!

Don't read this book unless you are truly desperate for a soap opera gone REALLY BAD!!!!!!

Classic and heart-breaking. One of her best novels.

I agree with Lynn...this was an absolute waste of a book. I too just wanted the suffering (mine as the reader) to end. I guess the only reason I kept reading was to see if it got any better. I stopped reading before the last few pages just because I didn't care what happened to any of the characters.

I read this many years ago and it has stayed with me. Great story.

This one can be a tear jerker. Sad and realistic at the same time.

The story begins in 1944 with Pearl and her three children being abandoned by husband and father. Over the years they all yearn for the "perfect" family.

This is such a wonderful, enticing, vivid, and beautiful story. Dark, detailed, luscious.

Anne Tyler makes you feel as though you are living with these characters. I couldnt get enough of this book- it deals with three siblings, all of whom compete against each other and an abusive but stong mom

Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. It was Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house, abandoing Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determineed, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the oldest son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet and clumsy Ezra, Pearl's favorite, who never stops yearning for the "perfect" family that could never be his own. Now grown, they have gathered together again---with anger, with hope and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell...

Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on BAltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the oldest son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet and clumsy Ezra, Pearl's favorite, who never stops yearning for the "perfect" family that could never be his own.
Now grown, they have gathered together again-with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell...