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 "outsiderness."
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance [...]

In 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 breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot [...]

"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read."THE BOSTON GLOBEPearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered togethe[...]

"A triumph."HARPERSBen Joe Hawkes is a worrier. Raised by his mother, grandmother, and a flock of busy sisters, he's always felt the outsider. When he learns that one of his sisters has left her husband, he heads for home and back into the confusion of childhood memories and unforseen love....[...]

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life.
"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." T[...]

Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances--in their house, on the roadway, in the market.
Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron spent [...]

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life.
"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." T[...]

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life.
"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." T[...]

Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years?and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other's eccentricities. Maggie, a kooky, lovable meddler and an irrepressible optimist, wants nothing more than to fix her son's broken m[...]

När Aaron förlorar sin Dorothy blir han förkrossad. Men en dag dyker hon upp igen, och även om ingen annan kan se henne så finner Aaron tröst i besöken. Och sakta, sakta börjar Aaron hitta ett sätt att säga farväl.[...]

Ett lättare handikapp har gjort att Aaron ständigt blivit överbeskyddad av sin mor och sin syster. När han träffar den frispråkiga läkaren Dorothy, som vägrar att dalta med honom, är det en befrielse. De blir kära, gifter sig och lever sedan i ett tryggt äktenskap. Då händer det ofattba[...]

En varsamt berättad historia om en pensionerad lärare som tvingas komma till insikt om vad som är viktigast i livet och hur man kan förhålla sig till den senare delen av livet.

Liam Pennywell, hade tänkt bli filosof när han var yngre men blev grundskolelärare istället.