If Morning Ever Comes

"Funny, serious, touching, zany, delightful, revealing a triumph " Harper's Ben Joe Hawkes comes from a fairly large, blindly cheerful family that never seems to know when to get upset. Raised by women a proud mother, an incorrigible grandmother, and a flock of busy sisters Ben Joe has always been a [...]
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"Funny, serious, touching, zany, delightful, revealing a triumph " Harper's Ben Joe Hawkes comes from a fairly large, blindly cheerful family that never seems to know when to get upset. Raised by women a proud mother, an incorrigible grandmother, and a flock of busy sisters Ben Joe has always been an outsider of sorts, and a chronic worrier. Then a casual telephone conversation with his mom, in which he discovers that one of his sisters has left her husband and run off with her baby, propels him back home and into the confusion of childhood memories and unforeseen love. Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place. Newsday One of the most beguiling and mesmerizing writers in America. Cleveland Plain Dealer To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love. People"