Clock Dance

A Novel

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Anne Tyler: Clock Dance (2019, Penguin Random House)

368 pages

English language

Published March 15, 2019 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-78470-859-7
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Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother, yet the prospect is dimming. So, when Willa receives a phone call from a stranger, telling her that her son's ex-girlfriend has been shot, she drops everything and flies across the country to Baltimore. The impulsive decision to look after this woman and her nine-year-old daughter will lead Willa into uncharted territory--surrounded by eccentric neighbors, plunged into the rituals that make a community a family, and forced to find solace in unexpected places.

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Subjects

  • Fiction, women
  • Widows, fiction
  • Fiction, family life
  • Baltimore (md.), fiction