Description
A newly retired schoolteacher, Liam Pennywell, expects quiet relief—until a baffling memory gap after moving into a streamlined condominium leaves him with only fragments of the night that changed everything. As he tries to recover what was taken from him, Liam’s search pulls him into unexpected relationships and small, revealing detours that reshape how he understands his own life. With Anne Tyler’s signature blend of gently humorous realism and deep compassion, the novel explores memory and loss, the stubborn persistence of the past, and the ways ordinary people learn to live with what they can’t fully reclaim. At once intimate and quietly profound, this is a story about coming to terms with aging, reorienting the heart, and finding a “compass” for the final phase of life.
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paperback
Random House Digital, Inc.
Published Jan 1, 2010
300 pages
ISBN: 9780345523952
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First Published
2009
Language
eng
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