"The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways, they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation."--
Biografie
Anne Tyler wurde 1941 in Minneapolis geboren, wuchs in North Carolina auf und studierte Russisch in New York. Mit ihren zahlreichen Romanen gilt sie als eine der renommiertesten amerikanischen Schriftstellerinnen. Anne Tyler lebt in Baltimore.