'Anne Tyler...is inventive,funny and wise. Her fiction is magically alive to the quirks and coincidences of fate...( A Patchwork Planet) is charming, readable, and more full of touching and humane observations than many other novels you will read'

This was the first of Anne Tyler's books that I have read.I enjoyed the book and the main character Barnaby Gaitlin. On the whole I felt that it was a 'nature or nurture' sort of story and reasonably well done but in the end I felt that it had one major flaw, there is virtually no dialogue between two males, it is virtually all all between Barnaby and various females. This can be a danger when a member of one gender makes the lead character a member of the other sex. Some succeed but too many fail IMHO.

Sent out as part of a BookMooch.

Great read!