French Braid: A Novel

"French Braid is the narrative equivalent of its classy titular hairdo. With a sure hand, Anne Tyler twists and weaves the multiple strands and generations of her latest novel about a Baltimore family, plaiting them together and then watching them unravel. “Oh, what makes a family not work?” she asks in this chronicle of a marriage that gradually works loose over the course of more than 50 years, sending family members off in multiple directions."