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Friends Book Club: French Braid, by Anne Tyler
Open to all. No pre-registration required. Email Book Club moderator, Judith Merson, for Zoom link information: dtlbookclub@bocalibraryfriends.org. Log on as early as 6:00pm for troubleshooting.
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. Click here to reserve a copy of the book with your library card.