The child didn't wake. She only nestled closer and sighed. So after all, Ezra could have put his coat beneath her head. He had missed an opportunity. It was like missing a train - or something more important, something that would never come again. There was no explanation for the grief that suddenly filled him.”

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All of the characters in this book are so well drawn out. Anne Tyler has portrayed each one, with their strengths and weaknesses, and ultimately made me care about all of them, including Cody, who was so easy to hate.This was a feel-good book - and in that respect it truly did it's job. I was coming off a book that was very dark and I needed to read something that offered lighter fare. sometimes I stand there watching them and I see they believe they're completely special, the first, the only people ever to feel the way they're feeling. They believe they'll live happily ever after, that all the other marriages going on around them - those ordinary, worn-down, flattened-in arrangements - why, those are nothing like they'll have. They'll never setlle for so little. And it makes me mad. I can't help it, Cody. I know it's selfish, but I can't help it. I want to ask them, Who do you think you are, anyhow? Do you imagine you're unique? Do you really suppose I was always this old difficult woman?

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Jenny is the third child and the most scholarly of the Tulls, but in college, she marries on an impulse with unhappy results. Only in her third marriage to a man with six children whose wife has abandoned him does she find stability in family life and in her successful, if harried, career as a pediatrician. One day later, the book is finished, and my family is starving, but it's actually symbolic. After all, this book is about our hunger. As in, we're hungry for what we had, hungry for what we didn't have, hungry for what we think we want. Most of us are just plain starving. I was ready to eat the book.

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Their growing up amounted, therefore, to a gradual dimming of the light at her bedroom door, as if they took some radiance with them as they moved away from her. She should have planned for it better, she sometimes thought. She should have made a few friends or joined a club. But she wasn’t the type. It wouldn’t have consoled her.”

Lunga premessa prima di tentare di fissare qualche pensiero su questo suo romanzo, che io considero il suo migliore, sicuramente il mio preferito (leggo in una delle sue rare interviste, che credo dia solo via mail, che la stessa Tyler lo considera il suo migliore, e quello che le ha creato più problemi di scrittura, il più faticoso da scrivere).

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Often, like a child peering over the fence at somebody else's party, she gazes wistfully at other families and wonders what their secret is. They seem so close. Is it that they're more religious? Or stricter, or more lenient? Could it be the fact that they participate in sports? Read books together? Have some common hobby? Recently, she overheard a neighbor woman discussing her plans for Independence Day: her family was having a picnic. Every member--child or grownup--was cooking his or her specialty. Those who were too little to cook were in charge of paper plates.I mean, if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad. And Cody certainly catalogues; he’s ruining his life with his catalogues.” Q: What is the most rewarding aspect of writing for you? Does it vary from novel to novel? Is there a particular life lesson you want your readers to get out of the Tulls’ story? E questo per me qualcosa vuol dire: ci vedo riflesso bene il mio entusiasmo iniziale che col tempo si è andato stemperando, smorzando davanti a una certa reiterazione di temi e situazioni, fino a portarmi al completo allontanamento, che ormai dura da una quindicina d’anni.