The meeting appeared to go well, but when Serena spies cousin Nicholas in the Philadelphia station, the incident drives a wedge between Serena and James and also sets in motion the idea that the Garrett family are not close. The novel opens in 2010 with Serena, Alice’s daughter (Mercy’s granddaughter), returning from a visit with her boyfriend, James, to his parents for the first time. Or did he? Mercy and Robin marry and they have 3 children: Lily, Alice and David. According to Robin, “ all the plumbers in Baltimore were crazy about her,” but he won. A frequent customer is plumber Robin, who may appear to come to shop, but who falls for Mercy. For the purposes of the novel, the Garrett family history begins with Mercy, the daughter of a man who owns a Baltimore plumbing supply shop. For outsiders, family dynamics are impossible to dissect, but sometimes, even for close relatives, those dynamics are equally murky.
Anne Tyler’s multi-generational novel French Braid takes a look at the complications and peculiarities of family life.
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