Description
In Baltimore, Mercy finally finds the space to breathe when her youngest child leaves for college, and the quiet shift in daily life opens the door to a long-held dream: painting. As decades unfold, her family’s routines, loyalties, and small frictions come into sharper focus, revealing how love can be both steady and complicated. With Anne Tyler’s signature warmth and wry precision, the novel traces the ways people reinvent themselves—sometimes by choice, sometimes by necessity—while remaining tethered to the bonds that shaped them. At its heart, French Braid is a deeply observant story about family, identity, and the art of starting over without fully escaping the past.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2022
288 pages
ISBN: 9781784744632
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First Published
2022
Language
eng
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