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"Once upon a time, there was a woman who learned that she experienced turned into the incorrect 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 could it be someone else's? On the top, Beck, as she actually is recognized to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving celebrations is, in the end, her vocation - something she slipped into even before finishing school, when Joe Davitch discovered her at an proposal get together in his family's crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where providing celebrations was the family business. What captured his luxury was that she seemed to be having such an excellent time. Soon this large-spirited older man, a divorcé with three girls, swept her into his orbit, and before she knew it she was embracing his prolonged family plus a child of their own, and hosting never-ending celebrations in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms on the Open Arms. Now, some thirty years later, after presiding over the disastrous family picnic, Rebecca is captured un-awares by the question of who she really is. How she right answers it - how she will try to recover her girlhood do it yourself, that dignified grownup she experienced once been - is the storyline advised in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel. As always with Anne Tyler's books, once we enter in her world it is hard to leave. However in Back WHENEVER WE Were Grownups she so sharpens our perceptions and awakens so many untapped feelings that people come away not only refreshed and delighted, but also infinitely wiser.
