French Braid

A Novel

English language

Published Jan. 4, 2022 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-593-32109-6
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3 stars

Not one of Tyler's best efforts. The familiar Baltimore family is there with lots of quirks, including a mom separating from family to assert her independence, but not enough underlying tension this time for me. Her writing seems simpler and less interesting, and there is too much homely comfort and too little of the edge that many of her previous books achieved, often approaching the corny and sentimental.

French braid is a metaphor for families -- the crimps formed by the braid are the wrinkles that never quite straighten out over the generations. The Garrett family and their wrinkles are followed through four generations in a largely benign story of a pretty typical American middle class family. One of the crimps occurs early in the book when Mercy, Robin, and their three children take a vacation for a couple of weeks on a lake. The youngest child, David, has a …

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