Join our Monday group on Zoom to discuss this recent novel by Anne Tyler.  All adults are welcome at our book discussions;  just use the registration link if you are not already a member of this group.  We send the zoom link  a day or two before the meeting.  Copies of the book are available at our circulation desk.  Call or email Beth Van Ness with any questions or comments.  860-693-5800 or bvanness@libraryconnection.info

“The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, 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 understands. Yet as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts’ influence on one another ripples unmistakably through each generation, much like French-braided hair keeps its waves even after it is undone. Full of heartbreak and hilarity, French Braid is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring, uncannily insightful novel of tremendous warmth and humor that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily lives, the impossibility of breaking free from those who love us, and how close–yet how unknowable–every family is to itself”–  Publisher Summary