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Book Review of If Morning Ever Comes

If Morning Ever Comes
If Morning Ever Comes
Author: Anne Tyler
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Ben Joe Hawkes comes from a fairly large, blindly cheerful family that never seems to know when to get upset. Raised by women - a proud mother, and incorrigible grandmother, and a flock of busy sisters - Ben Joe has always been an outsider of sorts, and a chronic worrier.

Then a casual telephone conversation with his mom, in which he discovers that one of his sisters has taken her baby and left her husband, propels him back home - and into the confusion of childhood memories and unforseen love....