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HTML:"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel.
The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or is it someone elseâ??s?
Now, some thirty years later, after presiding over a disastrous family picnic, Rebecca is caught un-awares by the question of who she really is. How she answers itâ??how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once beenâ??is the story told in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel.
As always with Anne Tylerâ??s novels, once we enter her world it is hard to leave. But in Back When We Were Grownups she so sharpens our perceptions and awakens so many untapped feelings that we come away not only refreshed and delighted, but al… (plus d'informations)
glajohnson: I really liked the main character in this book. I love that she was an overweight, middle-aged woman who was still trying to decide who she was. I think it was interesting for her to explore the "what if" of her college fiance and the life she might have had with him. I liked the way her thought processes changed throughout the book until she realizes that the way she was in college was not the true self that she thought it was.… (plus d'informations)
This book was insightful and also unsettling. One day, at 53 years old, Rebecca has the realization that she turned into the wrong person. She tries to find out who she would have been if she hadn't quit college and eloped at 20 years old. She feels she has outlived her purpose, and has become superfluous. Eventually she comes to accept, as her 100 year old Uncle Poppy points out, "there is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with,whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got." The most inspiring passage come during Poppy's 100th birthday. He describes, in agonizing detail, everything about his day. From the beauty of the sunshine on his bedspread, to the taste of his waffles, the texture of his pbj sandwich, and the trickle of the icing on his cake, it is a meditation on mindfulness. It brings Rebecca to the realization that "there were still so many happening s yet to be hoped for in her life." ( )
What if? That is the theme of this book. What if, thought Rebecca Davitch, I had not married Joe? She was almost set to marry handsome Will Allenby. Her mother and Will's mother were counting on it. But she became completely taken to Joe and married him without a question, thereby jilting Will. Joe was considerably older than her and left her with three stepdaughters to raise.
Rebecca thought of herself as shy and retiring but had to come out of her shell to save the party-giving family business. At a picnic that she gave for her daughter, Patch says that No No's future husband and stepson introduce them to the family, and then she has a revelation. All these years, she had never been herself She never thought that she fit into the Davitch family. Her eldest daughter was dismayed at No No for marrying into a ready-made family. Rebecca thought to herself, that is exactly what I did! Rebecca has the chance to be back with Will Allenby. She also has been living with and caring for the oldest member of the Davich family, Poppy who was her husband's uncle. All that he talked about is the party for his 100th birthday, he decided it was time to tell Rebecca about it. About 100 guests, nothing to eat but sweets and a big cake!
You will love this funny family with big problems and Rebecca will learn a lot about herself during this book. Enjoy! ( )
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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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Will opened his leather briefcase .., his notes emerged, ... followed by a great array of pens and pencils. His red ballpoint for editing, black fountain pen for composing, lead pencil for notes in borrowed books, and blue ballpoint for the books that he owned.
Joe's dental appointment, noted in his own jaunty hand with his stubby-nibbed fountain pen, came and went without him.
Papa was making notes on a memo pad with a promotional ballpoint pen from Ridgepole Roofers.
In the entrance hall of the school ... they were met by a young woman passing out self-stick labels and felt-tip pens.
Peter [a child] was demonstrating some kind of game. "First you take a ballpoint pen and lay it flat," he said, "with the little air hole facing up. Then you hold another pen exactly a foot above it, and you aim at the air hole and stab.... The winner is whoever's the first to break the pen on the table."
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On the screen, Rebecca's face appeared, merry and open and sunlit, and she saw that she really had been having a wonderful time.
Fiction.
Literature.
HTML:"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel.
The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or is it someone elseâ??s?
Now, some thirty years later, after presiding over a disastrous family picnic, Rebecca is caught un-awares by the question of who she really is. How she answers itâ??how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once beenâ??is the story told in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel.
As always with Anne Tylerâ??s novels, once we enter her world it is hard to leave. But in Back When We Were Grownups she so sharpens our perceptions and awakens so many untapped feelings that we come away not only refreshed and delighted, but al
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Eventually she comes to accept, as her 100 year old Uncle Poppy points out, "there is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with,whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got."
The most inspiring passage come during Poppy's 100th birthday. He describes, in agonizing detail, everything about his day. From the beauty of the sunshine on his bedspread, to the taste of his waffles, the texture of his pbj sandwich, and the trickle of the icing on his cake, it is a meditation on mindfulness. It brings Rebecca to the realization that "there were still so many happening s yet to be hoped for in her life." (