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The Tin Can Tree

Anne Tyler

"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love."

PEOPLE

After six-year old Janie Rose Pike dies in a tragic accident, her family is not the same. Mrs. Pike seldom speaks, while Mr. Pike is forced to come out of his long silence. And ten-year-old Simon is suddenly without a baby sister or an understanding of why she's gone. Those closest to this shattered family must learn to comfort them--and confront their own private shadows of hidden grief. If time cannot draw them out of the dark, then love may be their only hope....

Book Details

  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Publish Date: Aug 27th, 1996
  • Pages: 256
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.28in - 5.55in - 0.70in - 0.53lb
  • EAN: 9780449911891
  • Categories: LiteraryFamily Life - GeneralPsychological

About the Author

ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Her twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Praise for this book

"Deceptively simple, hauntingly real, a glowing talent." --Kirkus Reviews

"Tyler has selected material slight enough to be controlled completely, and squeezed more emotional power from it than one would have thought it contained." --The New York Times