Publisher's Synopsis
"Funny, serious, touching, zany, delightful, revealing...a triumph!" --Harper's
Ben Joe Hawkes comes from a fairly large, blindly cheerful family that never seems to know when to get upset. Raised by women--a proud mother, an incorrigible grandmother, and a flock of busy sisters--Ben Joe has always been an outsider of sorts, and a chronic worrier.
Then a casual telephone conversation with his mom, in which he discovers that one of his sisters has left her husband and run off with her baby, propels him back home--and into the confusion of childhood memories and unforeseen love.
"Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place." --Newsday
"One of the most beguiling and mesmerizing writers in America." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love." --People
