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Tyler, Anne Back When We Were Grownups : A Novel Ballantine Books October 26, 200 Paperback used: excellent The first sentence of Anne Tyler's 15th novel sounds like something out of a fairy tale: "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had t urned into the wrong person." Alas, this discovery has less to do with magi c than with a late-middle-age crisis, which is visited upon Rebecca Davitch in the opening pages of Back When We Were Grownups. At 53, this perpetuall y agreeable widow is "wide and soft and dimpled, with two short wings of dr y, fair hair flaring almost horizontally from a center part." Given her rol e as the matriarch of a large family--and the proprietress of a party-and-c atering concern, the Open Arms--Rebecca is both personally and professional ly inclined toward jollity. But at an engagement bash for one of her multip le stepdaughters, she finds herself questioning everything about her life: Price: 4.00 USD
