Anne Tyler's French Braid
This started off a little rocky for me, since the first character we meet is a twenty-something grad student in 2010 whose narrative voice I would charitably describe as old-fashioned, which was not the vibe in 2010 (as someone who was a grad student in the early to mid-2000s I feel qualified to speak to this). Luckily we then flash back to the late 1950s, to her mother's teen years, and Tyler hits her groove with the story of a complicated family and how they grew apart. Some of the characters worked better than others, and one in particular absolutely infuriated me (Desmond! You poor baby!). This wasn’t breaking new ground or anything, but it was interesting and enjoyable. B+.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released on March 22nd.
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