{"product_id":"french-braidbooks","title":"French Braid","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BEST SELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s up to our pandemic present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understands. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFull of heartbreak and hilarity, \u003ci\u003eFrench Braid\u003c\/i\u003e is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring, uncannily insightful novel of tremendous warmth and humour that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily lives, the impossibility of breaking free from those who love us, and how close—yet how unknowable—every family is to itself.","brand":"Tyler, Anne","offers":[{"title":"Hardback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":43856800317664,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/BNCImageAPI_b1e7471d-83da-41ea-89a0-8b418bcf48cb.jpg?v=1676051303","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/french-braidbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}