6/6/2023 0 Comments Ladder of years author![]() ![]() Anne Tyler's genius can make the drabbest of life's details seem simultaneously exotic and cozy. ![]() While spending a week at the beach with her husband, three kids, siblings and assorted in-laws, 40-year-old Delia Grinstead, whose ego has shrunk to the size of a speck, goes for a stroll and suddenly envisions "a map of the entire East Coast from Nova Scotia to Florida," in which she is "a dot in motion, heading south." Without planning, or even a change of clothes, she is soon in a car heading inland, running away from home.She randomly alights in a dumpy small town, and gets a musty room in a boardinghouse owned by an over-sharing realtor named Belle. Honestly, you don't think of yourself in the same way anymore either.You want-no, you need-a change, and it needs to be something radical.Enter Anne Tyler's novel Ladder of Years. ![]() ![]() Your teenage kids are in full-out disdain mode. All year, you've wondered-where did all the fun go? Your husband, who at one time couldn't keep his hands off you, no longer seems to give you even a second glance. ![]()
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