Back When We Were Grownups : A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Anne Tyler | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0345446860 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Sunryzze of San Diego, California USA on 8/18/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by Sunryzze from San Diego, California USA on Wednesday, August 18, 2004
I am really looking forward to this one, here is the description...

At 53, Rebecca Davitch, mistress of the Open Arms, a crumbling 19th-century row house in Baltimore where giving parties is the family business, suddenly asks herself whether she has turned into the wrong person. Is she really this natural-born celebrator, joyous and outgiving?

Certainly that's how Joe Davitch she her 30-some years ago. And that's why this large-spirited older man, a divorcee with three little girls, swept her into his orbit. Before she knew it, she was embracing his extended family (plus a child of their own) and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms where people paid to celebrate their family occasions in style. But can Beck (as she is known to the Davitch clan) really recover the person she left behind? A question that touches us all, and one that Anne Tyler explores with characteristic humor and wisdom in a novel one wishes would never end.

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