02484cam a2200289 4500 551829928 TxAuBib 20220325120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593551431 0593551435 2ca2e18f-17c9-43ad-adbf-208a50c2bc05 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6383450 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Tyler, Anne, 1941- French Braid [Libby Audiobook] : A novel. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2022. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 249MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 249MB. HTML:<b>From the beloved best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author—a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild in our pandemic present.</b><br /> <br /> The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation.<br /> &#160;<br /> Full of heartbreak and hilarity, <i>French Braid</i> is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring, uncannily insightful novel of tremendous warmth and humor that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily lives, the impossibility of breaking free from those who love us,&#160;and how close—yet how unknowable—every family is to itself. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-03-25 20:00:02. Farr, Kimberly. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2ca2e18f-17c9-43ad-adbf-208a50c2bc05&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2ca2e18f-17c9-43ad-adbf-208a50c2bc05&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)