![]() ![]() Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. ![]() They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. ![]() “A quietly subversive novel, tackling fundamental assumptions about womanhood, motherhood and female aging.” -Jennifer Haigh, New York Times Book Review ![]() From the beloved 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. ![]()
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