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Anne Tyler was born on October 25, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
(Two families meet at the Baltimore airport while waiting ...)
Two families meet at the Baltimore airport while waiting for their baby girls to arrive from Korea. The Iranian-American Sami and Ziba Yazdan, with Ziba's elegant and reserved mother, Maryam, in tow, wait quietly while brash and all-American Bitsy and Brad Donaldson, plus extended family, are armed with camcorders and a fleet of balloons proclaiming "It's a girl!" After they decide together to throw an impromptu "arrival party," a tradition is born, and so begins a lifelong friendship between the two families. As they raise their daughters, the Yazdan and Donaldson families grapple with questions of assimilation and identity. When Bitsy's recently widowed father sets his sights on Maryam, she must confront her own idea of what it means to be other, and of who she is and what she values. Rich, tender, and searching, Digging to America challenges the notion that home is a fixed place, and celebrates the subtle complexities of life on all sides of the American experience.
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"BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION." The headlines are all the same: Beloved mother and wife Delia Grinstead was last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing only a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To the best of her family's knowledge, she has disappeared without a trace. But Delia didn't disappear. She ran. Exhausted with her routine and everyone else's plans for her, Delia needed an out, a chance to make a new life for herself and to become a different person. The new Delia can let go of all the hurt and resentment that left her stuck in her past. As she eagerly sheds the pieces of herself she no longer needs, Delia discovers feelings of passion and wonder she'd long since forgotten. The thrill of walking away from it all leads to a newfound sense of self and the feeling that she is, finally, the star of her own life story.
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Under Attack The bombers latest threat has thrown the Crisis Management Unit into chaos! As Lara Grant struggles to hold her fractured team together, she discovers a possible connection between this case and her own past--something she cant reveal to anyone, especially now. Because when the bombers next target chooses to keep his secret, terror turns to an intimate form of torture, and anyones past can be used against them... Part 3 of 8: an explosive new installment in the thrilling FBI serial from New York Times bestselling author Carla Cassidy and Tyler Anne Snell, Emmy Curtis and Janie Crouch. Praise for Manhunt by Tyler Anne Snell: "A well-plotted page-turner with great lead characters." RT Book Reviews
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating One cannot reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this. The Washington Post A body of fiction of major dimensions Poignant funny Tyler has never been stronger. The New York Times In this irresistible novel, Anne Tyler explores the slippery alchemy of attracting opposites, and the struggle to rebuild ones life after unspeakable tragedy. Travel writer Macon Leary hates travel, adventure, surprises, and anything outside of his routine. Immobilized by grief, Macon is becoming increasingly prickly and alone, anchored by his solitude and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts. Then he meets Muriel, an eccentric dog trainer too optimistic to let Macon disappear into himself. Despite Macons best efforts to remain insulated, Muriel up-ends his solitary, systemized life, catapulting him into the center of a messy, beautiful love story he never imagined. A fresh and timeless tale of unexpected bliss, The Accidental Tourist showcases Tylers talents for making charactersand their relationshipsfeel both real and magical. Bittersweet evocative Its easy to forget this is the warm lull of fiction; you half-expect to run into her characters at the dry cleaners Tyler is a writer of great compassion. The Boston Globe
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Funny, heart-hammering, wise An extremely beautiful book. The New York Times A Book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read. The Boston Globe Abandoned by her wanderlusting husband, stoic Pearl raised her three children on her own. Now grown, the siblings are inextricably linked by their memoriessome painful--which hold them together despite their differences. Hardened by lifes disappointments, wealthy, charismatic Cody has turned cruel and envious. Thrice-married Jenny is errant and passionate. And Ezra, the flawed saint of the family, who stayed at home to look after his mother, runs a restaurant where he cooks what other people are homesick for, stubbornly yearning for the perfect family he never had. Now gathered during a time of loss, they will reluctantly unlock the shared secrets of their past and discover if what binds them together is stronger than what tears them apart. Soulful and redemptivefull of heartbreak and hopethis portrait of a family will remind you why Anne Tyler is one of the most beloved writers working today. In Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Tyler has arrived at a new level of power. John Updike, The New Yorker Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, and strewn with the banana peels of love. Cosmopolitan
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Anne Tyler was born on October 25, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
She attended high school in Raleigh and at sixteen entered Duke University where she fell under the influence of Reynolds Price, then a promising young novelist who had attended her high school.
Tyler’s first novel, If Morning Ever Comes, was published in 1964. Though it received little critical attention, it revealed the polished prose and understated examination of personal isolation and the difficulty of interpersonal communication that would also characterize her later work. Publication of The Tin Can Tree (1965), A Slipping-Down Life (1970; film 1999), and The Clock Winder (1972) followed, but it was not until the appearance of Celestial Navigation (1974) and Searching for Caleb (1975) that Tyler came to nationwide attention.
Her smooth witty style and her descriptions of modern Southern life won her many readers, and her next novel, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), was a national best seller. Her highly successful novel The Accidental Tourist (1985) examines the life of a recently divorced man who writes travel guides for businessmen. It was made into a film in 1988. Tyler’s later works include Breathing Lessons (1988), for which she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989; Saint Maybe (1991); Ladder of Years (1995); A Patchwork Planet (1998); Digging to America (2006); The Beginner’s Goodbye (2012); and A Spool of Blue Thread (2015). Vinegar Girl (2016), a retelling of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, was written for the Hogarth Shakespeare series.
Tyler's other novels have been adapted as audiobooks, among them Digging to America, Knopf, 2006.
She also wrote and published many short stories.
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Quotes from others about the person
Detroit News reporter Bruce Cook called "a solid literary reputation … that is based solely on the quality of her books. "
In his BookPage online article, Allan Mudge wrote that "what Tyler herself has always been particularly good at is depicting the fullness of life lived on a human scale.
Her characters are not—and do not aspire to become—members of the glitterati or the literati.
… Their dramas are the commonplace dramas of family and community life.
Tyler's great art has been to illuminate her characters' lives with wry wit and insight, not to exalt them to some larger, brighter stage. "
"The moral of Tyler's tale, " declared Suzanne Curley in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, "is that a princess unfazed by half-eaten candy bars left under her chair cushions, kittens nesting among fluffy slippers on the closet floor or a bed 'all lumpy and knobby with half-finished books' probably has her priorities straight, and may have much to teach about the way clutter often goes hand-in-hand with coziness. "
In 1963, Tyler married Iranian psychiatrist and novelist Taghi Mohammad Modarressi. Modarressi, 10 years her senior, had left Iran and his family as a political refugee at age 25. Modarressi died at age 65 of lymphoma in 1997.
Tyler and Modarressi had two daughters, Tezh and Mitra. Both share their mother’s interest in, and talent for, painting. Tezh is an artist who works primarily in oils; she also is a professional photographer.