Anne Tyler Boeken

Macon Leary is bang voor 'de wereld'. Om zich staande te houden richt hij zijn leven zo systematisch mogelijk in; verrassingen zijn uitgesloten. Als zijn kind sterft en zijn vrouw wegloopt, stort zijn systeem echter in en gaat hij noodgedwongen terug naar zijn ouderlijk huis, waarheen ook al zijn broers na hun respectievelijke scheidingen zijn teruggekeerd. Dankzij de uiterst wonderlijke Muriel Pritchett, een eigenzinnige hondentrainster, slaagt Macon er ten slotte in dit familielot te ontlopen en, zij het aarzelend, een nieuw leven te beginnen.

Ondanks hun verschillende karakters en achtergrond trouwen twee jonge mensen, maar na de verdwijning van hun oudste dochter naar een sekte beginnen de problemen.

Na een desastreus verlopen familiepicknick wordt de drieënvijftigjarige Rebecca overvallen door de vraag wie ze eigenlijk is. Ze voelt zich een vreemdeling in haar eigen bestaan. Tijdens de zoektocht naar het meisje dat ze eens is geweest, de jonge vrouw van vroeger 'toen ze volwassen was', neemt ze een besluit: alles moet anders.

**Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015** **Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015** **Sunday Times bestseller** 'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...' This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different. Abby and Red are getting older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them and their beloved family home. They've all come, even Denny, who can usually be relied on only to please himself. From that porch we spool back through three generations of the Whitshanks, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define who and what they are. And while all families like to believe they are special, round that kitchen table over all those years we also see played out our own hopes and fears, rivalries and tensions - the essential nature of family life. OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD

Contains: The Accidental Tourist; Breathing Lessons; Searching for Caleb.

When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, and his parents age before his eyes.

Meet the Tull family...Jenny, the daughter, high-spirited and determined. She was nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loved...cody, the oldest son. He was wild and incorrigible, possessed by the lure of power and money...Ezra, the gentle son. He was his mother's favorite, living out the dream of a "perfect" family that could never be his own...gathering around the memories of Pearl, their mother, whose final act of life affirms their own.

Short Stories by Ann Tyler, Bill Barich, John Updike, Carolyn Chute, Ursula K. Le Guin, Raymond Carver, and many others.

Through every family run memories which bind it together, despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore were no exception. Now as Pearl lies dying, stifly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and with it its secrets.