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Once again Tyler creates characters that are at once quirky and ordinary, and she continues to employ humor with great skill. In Breathing Lessons, she has maintained the lighter touch with humor that was the hallmark of The Accidental Tourist (1985) — the opening accident with the newly repaired car and Maggie's madcap ride in a laundry cart during a fire drill at the nursing home where she works, for example. But the darker humor typical of novels like Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) and Celestial Navigation (1974) also remains. Tyler intertwines...
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