French pigtail. Tyler E.

Roman of everyone's beloved classic. Warm, slightly ironic, insightful. This is again a trip to the world of an ordinary family. From the 1950s, when a sparkling red “Chevrolet” signals outside the window, to this day, which have pushed out in the pandemic. In the summer of 1959, Garrettes were sent on their first and last family leave. They hardly leave a removable cottage, but in a sense they were never so far from each other. After that trip, everything in the family is imperceptibly, but everyone is more confidently starting to move away from each other. Mercy hardly resists itching - she so much wants to become an artist.

But who will then take care of the house, prepare dinners for the husband of Robin? Her daughters, a balanced Alice and stained on Lily boys, are completely different from each other and do not find a common language. Their younger brother David, having left to study, almost breaks off his ties with his family. Nevertheless, something connects them all, despite all the differences and misunderstanding, something elusive. And each member of this seemingly disunited family has an impact on the life of everyone else. Because the family is something deeper than just related relationships, the family is like a French pigtail: you think that you escaped from relatives, but it’s impossible to get rid of them, they, like curls of a loose pigtail, are still weaving.

Full of love for people, hopes, joy mixed with bitterness, “French braid” is the classic story of Anne Tyler. An amazingly insightful novel about family abysses, about the impossibility of freeing from those who love us.