Author: annetyler
A New York Times bestseller and “wonderful novel” (The Boston Globe): Micah Mortimer keeps his world ordered — but when a teenager appears on his doorstep and says he’s his son, everything is turned upside down. “[A] heartwarming balm… Tyler’s novels are always worth scooping up — but especially this” (NPR).
A “delightfully zany” and “tender” New York Times bestseller (The Washington Post) from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author: When Willa receives a call from a stranger, she embarks on a surprising journey to help a struggling family. “Unwrapping the story is a delight” (Chicago Tribune).
Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she’s always in trouble at work – her pre-school charges adore her, but their … her, but their parents don’t always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr. Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help…
A #1 New York Times bestseller: When Macon, an isolated travel writer who loathes traveling, meets quirky Muriel, his eyes are opened to a richer life… “Incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating” (The Washington Post), with over 25,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads!
Ian Bedloe is the ideal teenage son, leading a cheery, apple-pie life with his family in Baltimore. That is, until a careless and vicious rumor leads to a devastating tragedy. Imploding from guilt, Ian believes he is the one responsible for the tragedy. No longer a star athlete with a bright future, and desperately searching for salvation, he stumbles across a storefront with a neon sign that simply reads: CHURCH OF THE SECOND CHANCE. Ian has always viewed his penance as a burden. But through the power of faith and the love of family, he begins to view it as…
This Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestseller is “funny, heart-hammering, wise… extremely beautiful” (The New York Times): When her husband leaves her, Pearl and her children confront the secrets that bind their dysfunctional family. Tyler “has arrived at a new level of power” (John Updike).
“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…
A New York Times bestseller and “act of literary enchantment” (The Washington Post) from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author: In a sprawling American home, life unfolds for four generations of the Whitshank clan. “Probably the best novel you will read all year” (Chicago Tribune).