Anne Tyler | Back when we were grownups
- Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person. The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a 53-year-old grandmother. Is she an imposter in her own life? she asks herself. Is it really her own life? Or is it someone else's?On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyful, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation - something she slipped into even before finishing college, when Joe Davitch spotted her at a party in his family's crumbling 19th century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was the family business. What caught his fancy was that she seemed to be having such a wonderful time. Soon this large-spirited older man, a divorcé with three little girls, swept her into his orbit, and before she knew it, she was embracing his extended family plus a child of their own and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged family home.
- • Language: English
• Format: 13 x 20 cm
• Volume: 287 pages
• Covers: paperback
• Year of issue: 2001.