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A runaway wife leaves one domestic situation, only to fall into another. She is Delia Grinstead, 40, of Baltimore, the wife of a physician and mother of three. One day she decides she's had enough of being invisible, moves to another town and gets herself a job--caring for a boy whose mother has abandoned the family. By the author of Saint Maybe.

Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating...

"Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances--in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a breath...

A los sesenta y un a�nos, Liam Pennywell acaba de perder su trabajo. Lejos de entristecerse por algo que nunca le interes�o realmente, lo toma como una se�nal. Es justo lo que necesita para adentrarse en la �ultima fase de su vida, en la que puede recapitular y prepararse para el final. Entusiasmado por primera vez en a�nos, decide mudarse a un apartamento m�as sencillo y acorde con su nueva vida. Sin embargo, en su primera noche all�i...