Back When We Were Grownups | Back When We Were Grownups

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Author: Anne Tyler
First Published: 2001
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: 1999
Setting: Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Characters: Rebecca Holmes Davitch, Paul P. “Poppy” Davitch, “Patch,”, “Biddy,”, “NoNo,”, “Minerva “Min Foo,”, Will Allenby, Zebulon Davitch, Joe Davitch
Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Widows or widowers, Bereavement or grief, 1990’s, Baltimore, Stepfamily, Middle age, Maryland
Locales: Baltimore, MD

People in Anne Tyler novels do the strangest things—“do” in that American English sense of the word in which one is what one “does.” In Saint Maybe, Tyler showed her readers a clutter counselor, while Patchwork Planet featured the Rent-a-Back service. Reading Anne Tyler can make the yellow pages of the phone book a new and exciting place again; did she really make that up? Are there really no clutter counselors listed? Back When We Were Grownups introduces the Davitches and their formerly grand but now run-down home, “The Open Arms,” which they operate...

Back When We Were Grownups | Back When We Were Grownups

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