How many Anne Tyler novels open in a railway station? Quite a few of them, and stations are featured in more. They looked so scattered, and so lonesome.” A passerby would never guess the Garretts even knew each other. “Even her father, a few yards away from her, was swimming now toward shore. I’m adding links to these reviews plus all the reviews I am alerted to to the project page, so do pop there to see what other people have thought, too. If you’re reading along with the project or just this one or whatever, please do share your thoughts in the comments at the bottom or add a link to your review on your blog or Goodreads, etc. I’m mainly glad I’ve finally read it – and it was a good one, although curiously, I found myself in floods of tears at the end, even though the ending isn’t violently sad! I’ve not seen any other reviews of it yet apart from the ones on NetGalley, so I’m looking forward to finding out what other bloggers I follow think of it. I think I still have a paper copy coming but I managed to nab an e-book from NetGalley and plunged into it as my first March read. While I was doing my Anne Tyler 2021 project, I heard the news that she was about to publish another novel, “French Braid”.
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