Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel–a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her “outsiderne...
Marrying quickly during World War II after falling in love at first sight, a mismatched couple discovers that their very different personalities and approaches to life are taking a toll on their lives, their relationship, and their fa...
The Beginner's Goodbye: A Novel
Anne TylerPulitzer Prize–winning author Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel about loss and recovery, pierced throughout with her humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles. Crippled in his righ...
A Spool of Blue Thread: A Novel
Anne TylerNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Chicago Tribune �...
Macon Leary, the middle-aged author of a series of books for armchair travellers, has recently had his grief over the murder of his son compounded by the breakup of his marriage. He begins to descend into obsessive behavior and must s...
To her family, forty-year-old Delia--last seen strolling down the Delaware shore carrying a beach tote with $500 tucked inside--had disappeared without a trace, but to Delia, "walking away from it all" had been an impulse th...
A Patchwork Planet (Ballantine Reader...
Anne TylerIn this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order. Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaki...
Back When We Were Grownups (Ballantin...
Anne Tyler...GROWNUPS...doesn't deliver. Its lightness isn't unpleasing and its story isn't unaffecting. But Tyler's darker books insinuate themselves more deeply into one's heart....It pains me to say this, but Tyler seems a little spent in GR...
From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.Liam Pennywell, who set out ...
New York Times Bestseller A charming novel of self-discovery and second chances from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread Willa Drake has had three opportunities to start her life over: in 1967, as a schoolg...
An almost flawless story of love...Morgan emerges as a true hero.'LOS ANGELES TIMESMorgan Gower works at Cullen's hardware store in north Baltimore. He has seven daughters and a warmhearted wife, but as he journeys into the gray area ...
9 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list!'A novel that attests once again to Ms. Tyler's enormous gifts as a writer.'--THE NEW YORK TIMES 'Captivating . . . . Compelling . . . . There is a kind of magic at work in this novel.'--T...
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler'Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-s...
To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love.'PEOPLECharlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husban...
Magic and true, dazzling and wise...It has an astounding confidence, depth and range...A wonderful, wonderful novel.'THE BOSTON GLOBEDuncan Peck has a fascination for randomness and is always taking his family on the move. His wife, J...
The Tin Can Tree (1st Ballantine Book...
Anne TylerIn the small town of Larksville, the Pike family is hopelessly out of step with the daily rhythms of life after the tragic, accidental death of six-year-old Janie Rose. Mrs. Pike seldom speaks, blaming herself, while Mr. Pike is force...
Clock Winder (1st Ballantine Books Tr...
Anne TylerMrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don't have to be a perfect...
Vinegar Girl: A Novel (Hogarth Shakes...
Anne TylerPulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home...
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • 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 1950...
Redhead by the Side of the Road: A no...
Anne TylerLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE From the beloved Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel—an instant New York Timesbestseller—about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Morti...