“You’ll want to turn back to the first chapter the moment you finish the last.” —PEOPLE“Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person.” The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her … is, after all, her vocation—something she married into after Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family’s crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was his family business. What caught Joe’s fancy was that she seemed to be having such a wonderful time.
Soon this large-spirited divorcé with three little girls swept Beck 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 rooms of The Open Arms.
Now, some thirty years later, after presiding over a disastrous family party, Rebecca is caught un-awares by the question of who she really is. Is she an impostor in her own life? Is it indeed her own life? How she answers—how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been—is the story told in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel.
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Back When We Were Grown-ups is layered with the emotions of family interactions. Fifty three year old grandmother Rebecca felt she has turned into the wrong person. Her husband had died suddenly in an auto accident and she was forced to raise his three young daughters, plus their own baby girl as well as operate the family party business simply to …
I’m a big Ann Tyler fan and she doesn’t disappoint with this book . Read it and enjoy her endearing, quirky characters.