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Year of Magical Thinking
The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler is a delightful apparition
by, Jill Swenson
July 3, 2012

Anne Tyler’s novels are punctuation marks in my own lifeline. Her first novels I discovered in college — If Morning Ever Comes and The Tin Can Tree — but by the time I got to graduate school, Celestial Navigation, Searching for Caleb, and Earthly Possessions captured my fancy as a reader. As each of her novels came out, I found myself compelled to purchase the… [Read More]

Filed Under: Anne Tyler, apparitions, Beginner's Books, Beginner's Goodbye, Book about books, Grief, Joan Didion, Year of Magical Thinking
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