Books / Book 335
Date: 2003-06-24 (permlink)
Author: Anne Tyler
Name: Back When We Were Grownups
Rating: ****

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The book starts off great, stays on track through the middle, but loses some of its steam toward the end. I think this is mainly because the ending is kind of a letdown. First Rebecca spends 250 pages fretting over her lost life, then she has a moment of self-discovery and realizes that hey, I actually had the life I wanted after all. Any reader could have told her that practically on page one...