Back When We Were Grownups(Chinese Edition) by Anne Tyler

paperback. New. Ship out in 2 business day, And Fast shipping, Free Tracking number will be provided after the shipment.Paperback. Pub Date: 2002 07 Pages: 288 in Publisher: Vintage Books When Joe Davitch first saw Rebecca it was at a party at the Davitch home - a crumbling nineteenth-century house in Baltimore where giving parties was the family business. Young Rebecca looked to Joe like the girl having more fun than anyone in the room and he wanted some of that happiness to spill over onto him. a 33-year-old divorc with three little girls. Swept away. Rebecca soon found herself mistress of ' The Open Arms'. emacing not only this large spirited man and his extended family but expertly hosting endless parties in the ornate. high-ceilinged rooms where people pay to have family celeations in style. But now. years after she has lost her husband in a car accident. Beck (as she is known to the Davitch clan) asks herself whether she is an impostor in her own life. Is she really this natural-born celeator. joyous and outgoing Can she always be there for Poppy. her almost 100 -year-old uncle-in-law who lives on the top floor. for stepdaughters - Biddy and NoNo and Patch and the husbands and fianc s. as they come and go. and their children - and for her own daughter Min Foo. pregnant again What would have happened if she'd married her blond college sweetheart. Will. back then when they were so young and so serious and so sure about everything Can one ever recover the person one has left behind - and would one ever like them With perfect pitch Anne Tyler explores these unsettling questions of love and loss. of identity and family. moving with eathtaking assurance between hearteak and hilarity. between tenderness and razor-sharp observation in a novel that we wish would never end. Satisfaction guaranteed,or money back.