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Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for every single other. The moment she walked into his mother's supermarket in the Polish neighbourhood of Baltimore, he was smitten. And in heat of World War II fervour, they were hastily wed. But they never must have married. Pauline, impulsive and impractical, tumbles hit-or-miss through life; Michael, plodding, cautious, and judgemental, proceeds deliberately. With time their foolish quarrels take their toll. A 17-year-old daughter disappears, plus some years later this fractious pair is forced to rescue her little boy, named Pagan, from drug-infested San Francisco, to consider him home and raise him. From sound of the cash register in the old grocery to the counterculture jargon of the sixties, from the miniskirts to the multilayered apparel of later years, Anne Tyler captures the evocative nuances of everyday life of these decades with such telling precision that every page brings smiles of recognition. Throughout, as each one of the competing voices bears witness, our company is drawn a lot more deeply in to the complex entanglements of family life in this marvellous, multifaceted novel - one of Anne Tyler's finest.
