"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love."
PEOPLE
After six-year old Janie Rose Pike dies in a tragic accident, her family is not the same. Mrs. Pike seldom speaks, while Mr. Pike is forced to come out of his long silence. And ten-year-old Simon is suddenly without a baby sister or an understanding of why she's gone. Those closest to this shattered family must learn to comfort them--and confront their own private shadows of hidden grief. If time cannot draw them out of the dark, then love may be their only hope....
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About the Author:
Anne Tyler is the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Breathing Lessons, and many other acclaimed works of fiction. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, and Harper's. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her husband and two children.
Review:
"A wholly individual writer of considerable stature" * Sunday Telegraph * "Her touch is deft, her perceptions keen, her ear for speech phenomenal. Her people are triumphantly alive" * New York Times * "Miss Tyler is a writer whose special gift is to convey the richness, strangeness and unpredictability of seemingly everyday lives...She is a wholly individual writer and one of considerable stature" * Sunday Telegraph *
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- PublisherIvy Books
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0804108870
- ISBN 13 9780804108874
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages249
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