From the Washington Post:
Everything about Anne Tyler’s 24th novel, “French Braid,” is immediately recognizable to her fans. The story offers such a complete checklist of the author’s usual motifs and themes that it could serve as the Guidebook to Anne Tyler in the Wild. The insular Baltimore family, the quirky occupations, the special foods — they all move across these pages as predictably as the phases of the moon.
And I enjoyed every page! The novel spans several generations and many years and is done in a way that is not difficult to follow. Entire decades are skipped but it does not matter. It's all about family and how families relate to each other, avoid each other, treat each other, reconnect with one another, and try to deal with the individual relationships and issues they have with each other.
Reading this reminded me that I have several Anne Tyler books to catch up with!
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