Searching for Caleb (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Tyler
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Prejudices or antipathies, Brothers, Grandparents or grandchildren, Baltimore, Maryland
- Locales: Baltimore, MD
Searching for Caleb is unique among Tyler's novels in that it is a detective story. The first scene in the book takes place on a train from Baltimore to New York City, where Daniel Peck and his granddaughter, Justine Peck, hope to find some news of Daniel's half brother, Caleb Peck, who has been missing for sixty years. Caleb is finally found, thanks to a detective the family has hired; however, it is typical of Tyler's circuitous plotting that at the end of the story Caleb once again leaves the Peck family, with whom he had never been comfortable.
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